{"product_id":"when-time-is-short-isbn-9780807090008","title":"When Time Is Short","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith faith, hope, and compassion, acclaimed religion scholar Timothy Beal shows us how to navigate the inevitabilities of the climate crisis and the very real—and very near—possibility of human extinction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat if it’s too late to save ourselves from climate crisis? \u003ci\u003eWhen Time is Short \u003c\/i\u003eis a meditation for what may be a finite human future that asks how we got here to help us imagine a different relationship to the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModern capitalism, as it emerged, drew heavily upon the Christian belief in human exceptionalism and dominion over the planet, and these ideas still undergird our largely secular society. They justified the pillaging and eradication of indigenous communities and plundering the Earth’s resources in pursuit of capital and lands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut these aren’t the only models available to us—and they aren’t even the only models to be found in biblical tradition. Beal re-reads key texts to anchor us in other ways of being—in humbler conceptions of humans as earth creatures, bound in ecological interdependence with the world, subjected to its larger reality. Acknowledging that any real hope must first face and grieve the realities of climate crisis, Beal makes space for us to imagine new possibilities and rediscover ancient ones. What matters most when time becomes short, he reminds us, is always what matters most.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction with Playlist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Soon, All of This Will Be Gone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Once We Were Like Gods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. We Are the Gods Now\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Gods with Anuses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Palliative Hope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Back to the Beginnings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Humus Being\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. No Hope Without Grief\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Subsistentialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpilogue: Kids These Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e“The   novel exegesis and a nature-first perspective make for an original Christian   take on climate change, and Beal’s reflections on mortality and extinction   are powerful and moving (“What matters most when time becomes short is always   what matters most”). Touching and sagacious, this elegiac meditation will   enlighten.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beal’s book is a critical contribution to the conversation we must have as ecological disasters surround us. It is not a book of acquiescence but a humble call to live and act on a properly human, creaturely scale.”\u003cbr\u003e—Ragan Sutterfield, \u003ci\u003eSojourners\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this timely book, Timothy Beal invites us to face our collective human finitude. And it guides us to re-encounter biblical sources to find language that allows us to touch our ‘precarious wonder.’ This is a beautiful, courageous, and profound engagement with the most important questions of our times.”\u003cbr\u003e—Mayra Rivera, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Touch of Transcendence\u003c\/i\u003e and president of the American Academy of Religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tim Beal is unmistakably among our most discerning public intellectuals, capable of both penetrating critical thought and generative imagination. \u003ci\u003eWhen Time Is Short\u003c\/i\u003e is in part a realistic requiem for a long-running indulgent cultural past; in part, it is an honest analysis of our persistent Promethean seduction and, in part, a manifesto for modest hope for responsible courageous living. Honest and hope-filled, it merits wide and sustained attention.”\u003cbr\u003e—Walter Brueggemann, author of \u003ci\u003eSabbath as Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Timothy Beal’s encouragement for us to accept our death as a species, through rereadings of biblical texts warped by modern capitalism, invites a deeper understanding of ecological interdependence and the instructive power of grief. This deeply spiritual text is much needed.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Emily Raboteau, author of \u003ci\u003eSearching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a poem for the end-times. Beal provokes us to confront the omnicide around us and our finitude as a species. Yet he also offers a palliative vision of care: how to alleviate suffering and find hope, even in the darkest of times.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Kate Crawford, author of \u003ci\u003eAtlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Beal \u003c\/b\u003eis Distinguished University Professor and Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University. He has published essays on religion and culture for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Wall Street Journal, \u003c\/i\u003eCNN.com, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eRoadside Religion \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Bible.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233845719269,"sku":"NP9780807090008","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807090008_124fedaa-f2a5-4d46-9221-38a4cda1c2e3.jpg?v=1767743993","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/when-time-is-short-isbn-9780807090008","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}