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The Problem with The Dot
(Paperback)
Bruce D Long; Foreword by Makoto Fujimura; Preface by Wesley Vander Lugt
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What would it mean to imagine Islam as an immanent critique of the
West? Sayyid Ahmad Khan lived in a time of great tribulation for
Muslim India under British rule. By examining Khan's work as a
critical expression of modernity rooted in the Muslim experience of
it, Islam as Critique argues that Khan is essential to
understanding the problematics of modern Islam and its relationship
to the West. The book re-imagines Islam as an interpretive strategy
for investigating the modern condition, and as an engaged
alternative to mainstream Western thought. Using the life and work
of nineteenth-century Indian Muslim polymath Khan (1817-1898), it
identifies Muslims as a viable resource for both critical
intervention in important ethical debates of our times and as
legitimate participants in humanistic discourses that underpin a
just global order. Islam as Critique locates Khan within a broader
strain in modern Islamic thought that is neither a rejection of the
West, nor a wholesale acceptance of it. The author calls this
"Critical Islam". By bringing Khan's critical engagement with
modernity into conversation with similar critical analyses of the
modern by Reinhold Niebuhr, Hannah Arendt, and Alasdair MacIntyre,
the author shows how Islam can be read as critique.
Volatile social dissonance in America's urban landscape is the
backdrop as Valerie Miles-Tribble examines tensions in ecclesiology
and public theology, focusing on theoethical dilemmas that
complicate churches' public justice witness as prophetic change
agents. She attributes churches' reticence to confront unjust
disparities to conflicting views, for example, of Black Lives
Matter protests as "mere politics," and disparities in leader and
congregant preparation for public justice roles. As a practical
theologian with experience in organizational leadership,
Miles-Tribble applies adaptive change theory, public justice
theory, and a womanist communitarian perspective, engaging Emilie
Townes' construct of cultural evil as she presents a model of
social reform activism re-envisioned as public discipleship. She
contends that urban churches are urgently needed to embrace active
prophetic roles and thus increase public justice witness. "Black
Lives Matter times" compel churches to connect faith with public
roles as spiritual catalysts of change.
The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current
thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in
contemporary struggles for social justice - either as inspiration
or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of
leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling resources for
thinking biblically about what justice is and what it demands.
Individual essays treat key debates, themes, and texts, locating
each within its historical and cultural settings while also linking
them to the most pressing justice concerns of the twenty-first
century. The volume aims to challenge academic and ecclesiastical
complacency and highlight key avenues for future scholarship and
action.
By critically surveying various approaches to Christian ecological
ethics alongside the vexing moral ambiguities of the Anthropocene,
Ecology of Vocation offers an integrative approach to responsible
living vis a vis one of Protestantism's key theological resources
the doctrine of vocation. Drawing on H. Richard Niebuhr's germinal
ethical framework with a decidedly ecofeminist perspective, Kiara
A. Jorgenson demonstrates how vocation's emphasis on right
relationship over right behavior or intentions practically speaks
to the embodied realities of planetary interrelatedness. By
excavating the ecological promise of the early Reformers'
democratized renderings of calling and linking their concerns to
the contemporary context, she argues that vocation cannot be
reduced to the particular aim of monetized work, nor to an elitist
escape from it. Rather, vocation must be recast as the dynamic and
vibrant space between the myriad roles any of us inhabits at any
given time in a particular place. When understood in this light,
vocation signals much more than a job, a passion, or a quest for
self-discovery. An alternative understanding of vocation's very
ecology can extend Christian conceptions of the neighbor beyond the
human and lead the church to more faithfully pursue lives
characterized by humility, restraint, wisdom, justice, and love.
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Christian Socialism
(Hardcover)
Philip Turner; Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas
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