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Author | : Vincent E. Bacote |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310516080 |
What might it mean for public and political life to be understood as an important dimension of following Jesus? As a part of Zondervan’s Ordinary Theology series, Vincent E. Bacote’s The Political Disciple addresses this question by considering not only whether Christians have (or need) permission to engage the public square, but also what it means to reflect Christlikeness in our public practice, as well as what to make of the typically slow rate of social change and the tension between relative allegiance to a nation and/or a political party and ultimate allegiance to Christ. Pastors, laypeople, and college students will find this concise volume a handy primer on Christianity and public life.
Author | : Vincent Bacote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780310516071 |
In The Political Disciple, Vincent E. Bacote devotes careful attention to the intersection between politics and the Christian life. Rather than calling for a hiatus from the public square, he offers suggestions for public engagement as an expression of Christian faithfulness.
Author | : Martín Espada |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2016-10-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0810133865 |
The ferocious acumen with which the award-winning poet Martín Espada attacks issues of social injustice in Zapata’s Disciple makes it no surprise that the book has been the subject of bans in both Arizona and Texas, targeted for its presence in the Mexican American Studies curriculum of Tucson’s schools and for its potential to incite a riot among Texas prison populations. This new edition of Zapata’s Disciple, which won the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Award for Essay / Creative Nonfiction, opens with an introduction in which the author chronicles this history of censorship and continues his lifelong fight for freedom of expression. A dozen of Espada’s poems, tender and wry as they are powerful, interweave with essays that address the denigration of the Spanish language by American cultural arbiters, castigate Nike for the exploitation of its workers, reflect upon National Public Radio’s censorship of Espada’s poem about Mumia Abu- Jamal, and more. Zapata’s Disciple is a potent assault on the continued marginalization of Latinos and other poor and working-class citizens in American society, and the collection breathes with a revolutionary zeal that is as relevant now as when it was first published.
Author | : Rowan Williams |
Publisher | : SPCK |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 2016-07-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0281076634 |
"If discipleship is a journey, this book belongs in the rucksack. . . Like the scriptures on which it is based, it deserves repeated reading." Stephen Cherry, Dean of Kings College, Cambridge This fresh and inspiring look at the meaning of discipleship covers the essentials of the christian life, including: faith, hope and love; forgiveness; holiness; social action; life in the Spirit. Written for the general reader by one of our greatest living theologians, this book will help you to see more clearly, love more dearly and follow more nearly the way of Jesus Christ.
Author | : Kevin Roose |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0446544531 |
The hilarious and heartwarming, respectful and thought-provoking memoir of a college student's semester at Liberty University, the "Bible Boot Camp" for young evangelicals, that will inspire believers and nonbelievers alike. No drinking. No smoking. No cursing. No dancing. No R-rated movies. Kevin Roose wasn't used to rules like these. As a sophomore at Brown University, he spent his days fitting right in with Brown's free-spirited, ultra-liberal student body. But when Roose leaves his Ivy League confines to spend a semester at Liberty University, a conservative Baptist school in Lynchburg, Virginia, obedience is no longer optional. Liberty is the late Reverend Jerry Falwell's "Bible Boot Camp" for young evangelicals, his training ground for the next generation of America's Religious Right. Liberty's ten thousand undergraduates take courses like Evangelism 101 and follow a forty-six-page code of conduct that regulates every aspect of their social lives. Hoping to connect with his evangelical peers, Roose decides to enroll at Liberty as a new transfer student, chronicling his adventures in this daring report from the front lines of America's culture war. His journey takes him from an evangelical hip-hop concert to a spring break mission trip to Daytona Beach (where he learns to preach the gospel to partying coeds). He meets pastors' kids, closet doubters, Christian rebels, and conducts what would be the last print interview of Rev. Falwell's life.
Author | : Vincent E. Bacote |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725229102 |
In The Spirit in Public Theology, Bacote shows how Dutch politician and church leader Abraham Kuyper lived a thoroughly Christian life, and explains why Christians need to follow Kuyper by taking their faith into the public sphere. Identifying the characteristics of a true Christian worldview, Bacote demonstrates the need for a public theology that stresses engagement between the church and the world. The Spirit in Public Theology should be required reading for pastors, students, and all Christians who want to take their faith beyond the four walls of the Church.
Author | : Kaitlyn Schiess |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830853405 |
A generation of young Christians are weary of the political legacy they've inherited. Could it be that the church's politics are shaped by its habits and practices? Contending that we must recognize the formative power of the political forces around us, Kaitlyn Schiess urges the church to recover historic Christian practices that shape us according to the truth of the gospel.
Author | : Nicholas Wolterstorff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107027314 |
Questions how the church and state should be related, through an examination of the relationship between divine and political authority.
Author | : Kristopher Norris |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2015-04-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498269893 |
American Christians, weary of decades of entrenched partisan feuding, are increasingly distancing themselves from politics. Some, however, continue to turn toward the state and public policy to find solutions to the world's problems. The problem is that both responses allow a narrow vision of politics to determine the church's mission and ministries, which often ends up separating its commitment to personal faith from the pursuit of social justice--the King from the kingdom. Christians too easily forget that the church is inherently political, a community defined by its allegiance to a King, its citizenship in a new world, and its call to work alongside others in pursuit of a new way of life. The church needs a political vision that is more than blind acceptance or mere rejection of past models. It needs a positive vision that takes its cues about politics not from the nation-state but from another political reality: the kingdom of God. This book tells the stories of the visits of two researchers to five diverse congregations across the United States. From the megachurch energy of Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in California, to a young Emergent community in Minneapolis, to the politically active home of Martin Luther King in Atlanta, these stories illuminate the vastly different ways congregations understand and approach politics--and offer a glimpse of a new political imagination for today's church.
Author | : Elizabeth Phillips |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567263541 |
An upper-level introduction to Political Theology.