Journey toward Justice (Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity)

Journey toward Justice (Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity)
Author: Nicholas P. Wolterstorff
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441242988

Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, one of today's leading Christian scholars reflects on what he has learned about justice through his encounters with world Christianity. Philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff's experiences in South Africa, the Middle East, and Honduras have shaped his views on justice through the years. In this book he offers readers an autobiographical tour, distilling the essence of his thoughts on the topic. After describing how he came to think about justice as he does and reviewing the theory of justice he developed in earlier writings, Wolterstorff shows how deeply embedded justice is in Christian Scripture. He reflects on the difficult struggle to right injustice and examines the necessity of just punishment. Finally, he explores the relationship between justice and beauty and between justice and hope. This book is the first in the Turning South series, which offers reflections by eminent Christian scholars who have turned their attention and commitments toward the global South and East.

From Every Tribe and Nation (Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity)

From Every Tribe and Nation (Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity)
Author: Mark A. Noll
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441246428

Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, one of America's leading church historians shows how studying world Christianity changed and enriched his understanding of the nature of the faith as well as of its history. Mark Noll illustrates the riches awaiting anyone who gains even a preliminary understanding of the diverse histories that make up the Christian story. He shows how coming to view human culture as created by God was an important gift he received from the historical study of world Christian diversity, which then led him to a deeper theological understanding of Christianity itself. He also offers advice to students who sense a call to a learned vocation. This is the third book in the Turning South series, which offers reflections by eminent Christian scholars who have turned their attention and commitments beyond North America.

Reading a Different Story (Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity)

Reading a Different Story (Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity)
Author: Susan VanZanten
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441245731

Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, a noted Christian literary scholar recounts how her focus has shifted from American to African literature. Susan VanZanten began her career working on nineteenth-century American literature. A combination of personal circumstances, curricular demands, world events, and unfolding scholarship have led her to teach, research, and write about African literature and to advocate for a global approach to education and scholarship. This is the second book in the Turning South series, which offers reflections by eminent Christian scholars who have turned their attention and commitments beyond North America.

Thirteen Turns

Thirteen Turns
Author: Larry Donell Covin Jr.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725266857

It is remarkable that African Americans, the descendants of slaves, embrace Christianity at all. The imagination that is necessary to parse biblical text and find within it a theology that speaks to their context is a testimony to their will to survive in a hostile land. Black religion embraces the cross and the narrative of Jesus as savior, both theologically and culturally. But this does not suggest that African Americans have not historically, and do not now, struggle with the reconciliation of the cross, black life, suffering. African Americans are well aware of the shared relationship of Christianity with the white oppressors of history. The religion that helped African Americans to survive is the religion that was instrumental in their near genocide.

Journey toward Justice

Journey toward Justice
Author: Nicholas P. Wolterstorff
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780801048456

Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, one of today's leading Christian scholars reflects on what he has learned about justice through his encounters with world Christianity. Philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff's experiences in South Africa, the Middle East, and Honduras have shaped his views on justice through the years. In this book he offers readers an autobiographical tour, distilling the essence of his thoughts on the topic. After describing how he came to think about justice as he does and reviewing the theory of justice he developed in earlier writings, Wolterstorff shows how deeply embedded justice is in Christian Scripture. He reflects on the difficult struggle to right injustice and examines the necessity of just punishment. Finally, he explores the relationship between justice and beauty and between justice and hope. This book is the first in the Turning South series, which offers reflections by eminent Christian scholars who have turned their attention and commitments toward the global South and East.

Until Justice and Peace Embrace

Until Justice and Peace Embrace
Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1983
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802819802

Analyzes the structure of the modern social order and examines the Christian's proper goals of working for peace and justice.

Justice in Love

Justice in Love
Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0802872948

Pursuing Justice

Pursuing Justice
Author: Ken Wytsma
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0849964660

Examines the concept of biblical justice and the meaning of righteousness, using evangelical theology and personal narratives to show the importance of giving one's life away and living with justice, mercy, and humility.

Christianity

Christianity
Author: Linda Woodhead
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199687749

This is a short, accessible analysis of Christianity that focuses on its social and cultural diversity as well as its historical dimensions.

Reading While Black

Reading While Black
Author: Esau McCaulley
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830854878

Reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition can help us connect with a rich faith history and address the urgent issues of our times. Demonstrating an ongoing conversation between the collective Black experience and the Bible, New Testament scholar Esau McCaulley shares a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation.