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Spiritual Defiance - Building a Beloved Community of Resistance (Hardcover)
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Spiritual Defiance - Building a Beloved Community of Resistance (Hardcover)
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A leading voice of progressive Christianity makes a powerful case
for faith as a radical way of being in the world During his
thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers
has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social
change and personal transformation. In this provocative and
passionate book, he explores the decline of the church as a
community of believers and calls readers back to the church's roots
as a community of resistance. Shifting the conversation about
church renewal away from theological purity and marketing
strategies that embrace cultural norms, and toward "embodied
noncompliance" with the dominant culture, Meyers urges a return to
the revolutionary spirit that marked Jesus's ministry. Framing his
discussion around three poems by twentieth-century Polish poet Anna
Kamienska, Meyers casts the nature of faith as a force that stands
against anything and everything that engenders death and indignity.
He calls for active-sometimes even subversive-defiance of the ego's
temptations, of what he terms "the heresy of orthodoxy itself," and
of an uncritical acceptance of militarism and capitalism. Each
chapter is a poignant and urgent invitation to recover the Jesus
Movement as a Beloved Community of Resistance.
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