A guide to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Explore the rich culture and hip nightlife of Quito; take a canoe trip down the Amazon River; discover the farming villages and vibrant colonial heritage in the Central Valley; see Flamingo Lake on the island of Floreana; or relax along pristine Pacific Coast beaches in Puerto Bolivar, La Libertad, Manta or Esmeraldas. Ecuador's national parks are featured throughout. All ranges of hotels and restaurants are covered, particularly focusing on unique and special Ecuadorean locales. The authors wield a keen eye on value for money while prioritizing quality, regional culture and personality. An entire chapter details the best places to stay in the country. Another chapter on food and drink highlights the tasty seafood just offshore in Ecuador's bountiful coastal waters.
In the face of today's unprecedented ecological crisis, Christianity is often seen not only as sharing in the guilt of causing this crisis, but also as unwilling and incapable of providing any help in re-envisioning the required new way of life on earth. This view is justified when we consider how modern Christian theology has tended to denigrate the natural world and how the prevalent world-deserting Christian eschatology forms a spirituality that is fundamentally insensitive and indifferent to nature.In light of this, a meaningful Christian contribution to today's world of enormous ecological suffering must lie in envisioning a fundamentally new ecological vision of humanity's relationship to nature as well as providing an ethical energy to transform our current path of self-destruction.In this book, Bryan J. Lee finds, in Jürgen Moltmann's eschatological panentheism, a viable pathway toward a Christian ecological re-envisioning of the relationship between God and humanity and between humanity and nature. Furthermore, Lee demonstrates in a persuasive way how Christian worship can and should be the epicenter of ecological transformation of the society, emphatically interpreting Christian worship as an ecological-eschatological anticipation of God's cosmic perichoresis.
As one of the first roadies ever, Rooney tells firsthand about life on and off the road and around the world with Procol Harum, Reinhard Mey, The Beatles, Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon, Donna Summer, and others.
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