Resistance and Theological Ethics

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Ronald H. Stone, Robert L. Stivers
Rowman & Littlefield, 2004 - 334 pagini
Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church. Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to complacent religion that seems to be at ease with imperial greed, domination, and violence. Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social Witness in Geneva, Switzerland and southern France in 1999. Inspired there by the sixteenth century forces of renewal unleashed through resistance to an imperial church and society, the writings of these educators and ethicists combine to sound a clarion call for the church to stand in resistance to social, economic and political forces that threaten--while embracing those that foster--social justice, peace and human welfare. Each author emphasizes a specific call to nonviolent resistance against powers grounded in particular forms of sin: religious pride, greed, violence and domination. Divided into three parts, the book details social forces to be resisted, presents historical and biblical examples of resistance, and concludes with theological analysis and advocacy for action in contemporary American society.

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Introduction Contemporary Resistance Ethics
1
Resistance to Social Forces
15
Resistance and Economic Globalization
17
Globalization Reform or Resist?
35
Environmental Movements as Forms of Resistance
55
Resistance to Structural Adjustment Policies
63
Nationalism and International Migration
83
Resistance and Biotechnology Debates
97
Citizenship Resistance and St Augustine
185
Is God Dead? The Complexity of Resistance
203
Korean Womens Resistance If I Perish I Perish
219
Theological Ethics of Resistance
239
Resistance Affirmation and the Sovereignty of God
241
Fundamentalism and the Big Picture Bible
257
Is This New Wine? Resistance Among Black Presbyterians
263
Spirit and Resistance A Theological Perspective on Lillian Hellman
283

Resistance to Military NeoImperialism
117
Biblical and Historical Roots of Resistance
135
The Subversive Kingship of Jesus in Luke
137
Reading Revelation Today Witness as Active Resistance
155
Nature Resistance and the Kingdom of God
173
Theology of Resistance in Bonhoeffer and Tillich
299
Resisting Malpraxis in Religion
313
Index
325
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Ronald H. Stone is professor of Christian Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

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