Crux Sola: Formed by Scripture to Live like Christ
Norman Wirzba – Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Theology, Duke University
Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology?
Teaching and researching about the big questions—where are we? who are we? what should we do?—is both exciting and vital to living a decent and intentional life. Working with students and colleagues makes the journey instructive, difficult, and beautiful at the same time.
What is one “big idea” in your scholarship?
Creaturely lives and places are the embodied, material expressions of God’s abiding love and delight.
Who is one of your academic heroes and why do you admire them?
Louis Dupre, a teacher of mine at Yale, helped me understand how exciting multidisciplinary engagement can be.
What books were formative for you when you were a student? Why were they so important and shaping?
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity
Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise Than Being or Beyond Essence
Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Read Wirzba’s Work
Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (2nd Edition)
From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Love Our World
Follow Wirzba Online
If you ran into me at a conference and didn’t want to talk theology, what would you want to talk about?
Guitars, woodworking, and travel
What is a research/writing project you are working on right now that you are excited about?
I am just finished a book called “This Sacred Life: Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World” that is being published by Cambridge University Press.
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