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For many, U2's Bono is an icon of both evangelical spirituality and
secular moral activism. In this book, Chad E. Seales examines the
religious and spiritual culture that has built up around the rock
star over the course of his career and considers how Bono engages
with that religion in his music and in his activism. Looking at
Bono and his work within a wider critique of white American
evangelicalism, Seales traces Bono's career, from his background in
religious groups in the 1970s to his rise to stardom in the 1980s
and his relationship with political and economic figures, such as
Jeffrey Sachs, Bill Clinton, and Jesse Helms. In doing so, Seales
shows us a different Bono, one who uses the spiritual meaning of
church tradition to advocate for the promise that free markets and
for-profits will bring justice and freedom to the world's poor.
Engaging with scholarship in popular culture, music, religious
studies, race, and economic development, Seales makes the
compelling case that neoliberal capitalism is a religion and that
Bono is its best-known celebrity revivalist. Engagingly written and
bitingly critical, Religion Around Bono promises to transform our
understanding of the rock star's career and advocacy. Those
interested in the intersection of rock music, religion, and
activism will find Seales's study provocative and enlightening.
Augustine - for all of his influence on Western culture and
politics - was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist
theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a
liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal
critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The
result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for
liberalism and liberal imaginations for Augustinianism. From an
Augustinian point of view, Gregory argues, love and sin constrain
each other in ways that yield a distinctive vision of the limits
and possibilities of politics. "Politics and the Order of Love"
will provoke new conversations for those interested in Christian
ethics, moral psychology, and the role of religion in public life.
Research Articles:* Resurrection and Reality in the Theology of
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christopher RJ Holmes* Bridging the Gap:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Early Theology and its Influence on
Discipleship, Joseph McGarry* Binding Sovereignties: Dietrich
Bonhoeffer and the Virtues, Dallas Gingles* Hermann Sasse and
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Churchmen on the Brink, Maurice Schild*'Lord
of the (Warming) World': Bonhoeffer's Eco-theological Ethic and the
Gandhi Factor, Dianne Rayson & Terence Lovat* Other Article:*
The Bonhoeffer Society as Mentor, Keith Clements
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Serve and Protect
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Tobias Winright; Foreword by Todd Whitmore
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