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In all of these practices, women have shared their love of beauty with their families, churches, and communities, where it has been frequently trivialized as \"women's work,\" or as simple \"craft.\" The works of beauty that women have created over the centuries suggest that traditional aesthetic and theological categories of beauty are not only male-centered, but also falsely divide goodness and beauty. To love beauty is not to be distracted from the good, but to want to share it with the world. Women's practices of beauty show how we need not have to choose between beauty and goodness, bread and roses. †","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49937994547473,"sku":"CIN0809144220G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0809144220.jpg?v=1751170301"},{"product_id":"anthropology-book-susan-a-ross-9780814659946","title":"Anthropology","description":"Drawing on the wisdom and teaching experience of highly respected theologians, the Engaging Theology series builds a firm foundation for graduate study and other ministry formation programs. Each of the volumes—Scripture, Jesus, God, Anthropology, and Church—is concerned with retrieving, carefully evaluating, and constructively interpreting the Christian tradition. Comprehensive in scope and accessibly written, these volumes, used together or independently, will stimulate rich theological reflection and discussion. More important, the series will create and sustain the passion of the next generation of theologians and church leaders.   What does it mean to be human in the twenty-first century? Susan Ross explores this question through the lens of human desires: for God, freedom, knowledge, love, and pleasure, but also for power, consumer goods, self-gratification, and money. Beginning with biblical narratives of human desires, she goes on to consider how ancient, medieval, and modern thinkers have wrestled with the various ways that human beings have sought fulfillment in the world and in God.   The twenty-first century brings new questions and continuing challenges:       In a world of increasing complexity and fragmentation, can we still talk about the self?      How have feminism and new thinking about sexuality changed the ways we think about ourselves?      How do we maintain our humanity in the face of monstrous human evil?      What do the findings of science say about our uniqueness as human beings?   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