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Truth-Telling and Other Ecclesial Practices of Resistance
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2021
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In this book, leading American Lutheran theologians, inspired by the Scandinavian emphasis on theology as embodied practice, ask how Christian communities might be mobilized for resistance against systemic injustices. They argue that the challenges we confront today as citizens of the United States, as a species in relation to all the other species on the planet, and as members of the body of Christ require an imaginative reconceptualization of the inherited tradition. The driving force of each chapter is the commitment to truth-telling in naming the church’s complicity with social and political evils, and to reorienting the church to the truth of grace that Christianity was created to communicate. Contributors ask how ecclesial resources may be generatively repurposed for the church in the world today, for church-building grounded in Christ and for empowering the church’s witness for justice. The authors take up the theme of resistance in both theoretical and pragmatic terms, on the one hand, rethinking doctrine, on the other, reconceiving lived religion and pastoral care, in light of the necessary urgencies of the time, and bearing witness to the God whose truth includes both justice and hope.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1209-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1210-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
194
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Ecclesial Practices of Resistance No access Pages 1 - 10
Taking Responsibility for Truth No access Pages 11 - 20
Embodying Truth in Ecclesial Practices No access Pages 21 - 28
Telling the Truth about Doctrine No access Pages 29 - 46
Complicity and the Christological Path of Ecclesial Resistance No access Pages 47 - 62
Lutheran Ecclesiologies of Resistance No access Pages 63 - 74
Resisting Tyranny and Polarization No access Pages 75 - 96
Creation Piety and Spiritual Formation No access Pages 97 - 110
Remembering the Immigrant Experience No access Pages 111 - 126
Practicing Jesus Christ in Public, Embodying Resistance No access Pages 127 - 142
Seelsorge for Those Who Resist No access Pages 143 - 162
Select Bibliography No access Pages 163 - 170
Index of Biblical Passages No access Pages 171 - 172
Index of Names No access Pages 173 - 178
Index of Subjects No access Pages 179 - 190
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 191 - 194
