Embracing Hopelessness

Embracing Hopelessness
Author: Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2017-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506433421

This book will attempt to explore faith-based responses to unending injustices by embracing the reality of hopelessness. It rejects the pontifications of some salvation history that move the faithful toward an eschatological promise that, when looking back at history, makes sense of all Christian-led brutalities, mayhem, and carnage. To embrace hopelessness moves away from a middle-class privilege that assumes all is going to work out in the end. By upsetting the norm, an opportunity might arise that can lead us to a more just situation, although such acts of defiance usually lead to crucifixion. Hopelessness is what leads to radical liberative praxis.

Can "White" People Be Saved?

Can
Author: Love L. Sechrest
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830873759

White narmativity as a way of being in the world has been parasitically joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our problems today. Written by a world-class roster of scholars, this volume develops language to describe the current realities of race and racism, challenging evangelical Christianity to think more critically and constructively about race, ethnicity, migration, and mission in relation to white supremacy.

Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town

Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2018
Genre: Documentary photography
ISBN: 9783906822228

Contains reproductions of approximately 80 photos, dated 2006-2017.

A Theology of Liberation

A Theology of Liberation
Author: Gustavo GutiŽerrez
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 495
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0883445425

This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. The book burst upon the scene in the early seventies, and was swiftly acknowledged as a pioneering and prophetic approach to theology which famously made an option for the poor, placing the exploited, the alienated, and the economically wretched at the centre of a programme where "the oppressed and maimed and blind and lame" were prioritized at the expense of those who either maintained the status quo or who abused the structures of power for their own ends. This powerful, compassionate and radical book attracted criticism for daring to mix politics and religion in so explicit a manner, but was also welcomed by those who had the capacity to see that its agenda was nothing more nor less than to give "good news to the poor", and redeem God's people from bondage.

The Need of Salvation

The Need of Salvation
Author: Nancy M. Mency
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1490835180

Salvation is the power you need to overcome the world and the devil. Salvation equips you to be a winner, because now you have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. Salvation brings deliverance to those that are being oppressed, depressed, and broken from the care of this world. God gives you the ammunition to reject oppression and depression when it comes upon you. Salvation can deliver you from alcoholism and drug addiction, when you let Jesus Christ become your Lord and Savior. Let Jesus heal you from the struggles and heartache you are striving to overcome. The best council is the Word of God; it will equip you for the battle that you face each day. Having salvation, you will have power and strength to endure until Christ comes back to rapture his church.

Salvation as Praxis

Salvation as Praxis
Author: Wayne Morris
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567345173

Will people of other faiths be 'saved' and to what extent should the response to this question shape Christian engagements with people of other faiths? Historically, the predominant answer to these questions has been that the person of another faith will not be saved and is therefore in need of conversion to Christianity for their salvation to be possible. Consequently, it has been understood to be the obligation of Christian persons to convert people of other faiths. More recent theologies of religions for the past half century and more have sought to reconsider these approaches to soteriology. This has sometimes led to a reaffirmation of the status quo and at other times to an alternative soteriological understanding. In seeking to articulate soteriologies that make logical and doctrinal sense, too often these new approaches to salvation and people of other faiths have paid little attention to questions of practice. Drawing on alternative understandings of soteriology as deification, healing, and liberation, each perspective having ancient roots in the Christian tradition, it is argued that salvation can be understood as form of concrete earthly practice. Understood in this way, this book considers how these alternative theologies of salvation might shape Christian practices in a way that departs from a history in which the person of another faith has been perceived as a threat to Christianity and therefore in need of conversion. Further it asks how the complex multi-faith world of the twenty-first century might better inform and shape the way in which Christian theologies frame soteriological understandings.

Essentials of Christian Theology

Essentials of Christian Theology
Author: Stanley James Grenz
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664223953

This splendid introductory textbook for Christian theology presents two essays by leading scholars on each of the major theological questions. William Placher provides an excellent discussion of the history and current state of each doctrine while the essays explore the key elements and contemporary issues relating to these important theological concepts.

The Economy of Salvation

The Economy of Salvation
Author: Luigino Bruni
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030040828

This book provides a systematic commentary on the first two books of the Bible: Genesis and Exodus. Drawing on these two essential books, it subsequently offers new readings of several issues relevant for today’s economic and social life. Western Humanism has its own founding cultural and symbolic codes. One of them is the Bible, which has for millennia provided a wealth of expressions on politics and love, death and economy, hope and doom. Biblical stories have been revived and reinterpreted by hundreds of generations, and have informed many of our most beautiful works of art, not to mention the dreams of children and adults alike. And they have given us hope during the many painful times of exile and oppression that we have gone through, and are going through still. Among the books of the Bible, in both the Jewish and Christian traditions, Genesis and Exodus represent the true foundation of biblical theology and anthropology, but in them we also find the roots of the culture of markets, money and commerce, which would go on to flourish during the Middle Ages and ultimately form the ‘spirit of capitalism’ (Max Weber) or the ‘religion of capitalism’ (Walter Benjamin) in the modern era. This book examines the Biblical foundations of our conception of social relations, and offers new insights on the present economic and social discourse.