For decades, the multiple, interlocking forces of technological
advances, neoliberal capitalism, and globalization have been
transforming the very moral fabric and institutional underpinnings
of global society. The effects of these challenges include soaring
economic inequality, a widely experienced social fragmentation, and
increasing disenchantment with liberal democracy and its social
arrangements. This unraveling can be seen in the rise of illiberal
democracy, a deepening ecological crisis, and failures of
governance in coping with natural disasters and social tumults
alike.In response to this crisis of democracy and eroding
community, a growing number of people have been attracted to Saul
D. Alinsky's grassroots method of community organizing. God and
Community Organizing: A Covenantal Approach is written in this
cultural milieu; it brings Alinsky's community organizing into
conversation with the biblical vision of of covenant. Hak Joon Lee
argues that, theologically, covenant reflects the life of the
triune God who eternally organizes Godself as the Father, Son, and
Spirit, while politically, covenant captures the inherent passion
for justice that underlies Jewish and Christian faith. At its heart
is the attempt to structure a wholesome, close-knit community of
love, justice, and power. He points out that not only is covenant
instrumental in the formation of God's people as a community, but
the concept has also played an important role in the rise of modern
Western ideas of democracy, constitutionalism, and human rights. To
demonstrate the political plausibility of covenantal organizing,
Lee incorporates four examples of covenantal organizing in
different historical and social contexts: Exodus, Jesus, Puritans,
and Martin Luther King Jr. Critically engaging with Saul Alinsky's
method, Lee seeks to highlight how the two different streams of
political praxis-covenantal organizing and Alinsky's community
organizing-can complement each other to develop a more vigorous and
effective method of faith-based community organizing. Finally, Lee
explores the political and moral meanings and implications of his
study for the current struggle against the neoliberal corporate
oligarchy by presenting covenantal organizing as an alternative
political philosophy and practice to secular liberal philosophy,
postmodernism, identity politics, and communitarianism.
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