The Genesis of Liberation

The Genesis of Liberation
Author: Emerson B. Powery
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-04-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611646596

Considering that the Bible was used to justify and perpetuate African American enslavement, why would it be given such authority? In this fascinating volume, Powery and Sadler explore how the Bible became a source of liberation for enslaved African Americans by analyzing its function in pre-Civil War freedom narratives. They explain the various ways in which enslaved African Americans interpreted the Bible and used it as a source for hope, empowerment, and literacy. The authors show that through their own engagement with the biblical text, enslaved African Americans found a liberating word. The Genesis of Liberation recovers the early history of black biblical interpretation and will help to expand understandings of African American hermeneutics.

Genesis

Genesis
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2010-01-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611642884

In his clear and readable, style Walter Brueggemann presents Genesis as a single book set within the context of the whole of biblical revelation. He sees his task as bringing the text close to the faith and ministry of the church. He interprets Genesis as a proclamation of God's decisive dealing with creation rather than as history of myth. Brueggemann's impressive perspective illuminates the study of the first book of the Bible. Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching is a distinctive resource for those who interpret the Bible in the church. Planned and written specifically for teaching and preaching needs, this critically acclaimed biblical commentary is a major contribution to scholarship and ministry.

Reins of Liberation

Reins of Liberation
Author: Xiaoyuan Liu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804754262

The author's purpose in writing this book is to use the Mongolian question to illuminate much larger issues of twentieth-century Asian history: how war, revolution, and great-power rivalries induced or restrained the formation of nationhood and territoriality. He thus continues the argument he made in Frontier Passages that on its way to building a communist state, the CCP was confronted by a series of fundamental issues pertinent to China's transition to nation-statehood. The book's focus is on the Mongolian question, which ran through Chinese politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Between the Revolution of 1911 and the Communists' triumph in 1949, the course of the Mongolian question best illustrates the genesis, clashes, and convergence of Chinese and Mongolian national identities and geopolitical visions.

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 Genesis Code

The Genesis Code
Author: Richard L. Haight
Publisher: Shinkaikan Body, Mind, Spirit LLC
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781956889000

Suppose the foundational principle of the Judeo-Christian world had been lost thousands of years ago. How would we know it? We wouldn't-until it was rediscovered. Richard L. Haight, three-time award-winning author, has uncovered and decoded an ancient principle that has lain dormant, hidden for thousands of years within Genesis, the first book of The Holy Bible. When decoded, Genesis reveals a mystical yet surprisingly practical approach to human experience that leads to profound inner freedom. Haight believes it is the lost truth of Jesus some 2,000 years ago when he said, "Know the truth and the truth will set you free." But actualizing freedom takes more than just knowledge. Freedom of any kind requires commitment and follow-through. Considering how busy we are in the modern world, our time is precious. With that time-saving aim in mind, first make sure The Genesis Code aligns with your objectives. Do you desire freedom from compulsive self-absorption, arrogance, resentment, and condemnation? Do you seek liberation from the seemingly endless cycles of blame, shame, and guilt? Do you want to be free from unhelpful thoughts and beliefs and the torments of anxiety and emotional depression―regret of your past and fear of your future? Do you want freedom from that which misleads your mind and emotions? Do you want to be fully You in all aspects of your life? If you want to know the truth that sets you free, then The Genesis Code might be for you. Open your eyes to see that which once seen can never be unseen. Open to the true nature of the Universe, the earth, and the human being. Open to the true You. Chapters: Introduction Tools for Success Part 1 ― Mystical Revelations Chapter 1 ― First Contact Chapter 2 ― The Infinite Chapter 3 ― The Face of God Chapter 4 ― In Plain Sight Part 2 ― Developing the Eyes to See Chapter 5 ― The Power of Creation Mythology Chapter 6 ― Genesis Creation Mythology Chapter 7 ― The DNA of Genesis Chapter 8 ― The Mirror of Genesis Part 3 ― The Code Chapter 9 ― The Infinite God Chapter 10 ― God Incarnate Chapter 11 ― The Serpent Chapter 12 ― The Maps of Life Intermission Part 4 ― The Book of God Chapter 13 ― Pure Consciousness Chapter 14 ― Universal Mind Chapter 15 ― The Holy Spirit Chapter 16 ― You The Book of Genesis Appendix Glossary Acknowledgments About the Author

Animal Liberation and the Bible

Animal Liberation and the Bible
Author: Randall E. Otto
Publisher: Peter Lang D
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2021-07-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9783631851647

This book provides a thorough biblical response to this challenge and reasserts the central tenets of historic Christian faith as more in keeping with systematic theology, evolutionary biology, and philosophical realism.

The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Civil Codes in the United States

The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Civil Codes in the United States
Author: Julie Rocheton
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2024-03-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004689974

Starting in Louisiana in the early nineteenth century, this book takes the reader on a journey through the USA and the development of their civil codes. From Georgia and New York, civil codes traveled to California and Dakota Territory; in the Great Plains, they made their way to Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota by the end of the century. Unveiling the history of nineteenth-century civil codes in the USA, this book examines their origin stories, circulation, and usage by focusing on the social-historical context of their drafting and legal concepts. “Rocheton's work, published four decades after Cook's book on ‘The American Codification Movement,’ contains an exhaustive and insightful analysis of nineteenth-century civil codes. It thoroughly discusses their context, how they were conceived, discussed, drafted and approved, their main foreign influences and content, and their practical operation." - Aniceto Masferrer, University of Valencia “While there is a vast corpus of literature on codification and, more specifically, civil codes in the civil law tradition, it is much less known that six US states codified their private laws during the 19th century. This book tells the fascinating story. Spoiler alert: it’s a family affair.” - Stefan Vogenauer, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Reason and Justice

Reason and Justice
Author: Richard Dien Winfield
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780887067105

This is a finely argued, detailed, and comprehensive systematic theory of justice, brilliantly extending Hegelian ethics much as Rawls's Theory of Justice rehabilitated and extended classical Liberalism. Winfield argues that justice, like reason, must be self-grounding, and that to achieve this, it must be self-determined. The theory of justice must therefore abandon its appeal to metaphysically given or transcendentally constituted norms and instead determine the institutions of freedom. In pursuit of this task, Winfield offers insightful discussions of property relations, morality, the family, capital and commodity relations, economic and social justice, and the state. In contrast to Liberalism, which sees the state as instrumental to non-political ends, Winfield defends the democratic state as the just realization of freedom. Throughout, it is argued that justice is defined interactively, where one's freedom is determined by how one's interactions respect and foster the institutional freedom of others. Although the author's arguments proceed systematically, at each stage he deals adroitly with the relevant major thinkers in the Western tradition--not only with Hegel, but with the ancients, the classical liberals, Marx, and contemporaries such as Rawls.

The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience

The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience
Author: Demetrius K. Williams
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1793640491

In The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience: Piety, Politics, and Protest Demetrius K. Williams examines and explores the ideational importance and rhetorical function of cross language and terminology in the spirituals, conversion narratives, and Black preaching tradition through an ideological lens.