Introduction

care of the self, the city, and creation

1-26

Reading Paul in radical, late ancient, and prophetic perspective

29-43

Wisdom

Paul's exercises of care for a commercialized Corinth

45-68

The cross

the slow violence of gentlemen and the wisdom of self-giving love

69-94

Exercises

Paul's practices of reading and writing for social transformation

95-112

New creation

pauline social experiments for an ethos of love and justice

113-133

Pauline resonances in Luther, Derrida, and Kierkegaard

137-157

The writing of creatures

the environmentality of confessions in Derrida and Augustine

159-188

The caregiver of Copenhagen

Kierkegaard's reeducation of the age of information

189-221

Caring for creatures

Kierkegaard's exercises for a simple way of life

223-256

Conclusion

reading and writing for sustainability

Amy E. Varela

257-269