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For the Healing of the Nation offers a serious look at the social and political climate in the United States from a biblical perspective, emphasizing race and ""otherness, "" economics and the environment, and institutional violence (war and capital punishment). An autobiographic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pregeant, Russell (Autor)
Otros Autores: Cobb, John B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016.
©2016
Temas:
2000-2099
Justice > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Economics > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Justice > Biblical teaching.
Economics > Biblical teaching.
Économie politique > Enseignement biblique.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Economics > Biblical teaching
Justice > Biblical teaching
Social conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Trembling for my country: a reflection on place
  • Part 1. "Who is my neighbor?" The tragedy of dreams deferred. Prologue to part 1: A little window on a great big world
  • A place reconfigured: memories of the mid-twentieth-century South
  • Lessons learned: reflecting on the times
  • Adjusting the lenses: the Bible, race, and the unity of humankind
  • Ideology against the Bible: a judgment on the past
  • Adorning the tombs of the prophets: assessing the present
  • Reflections on a sugar house: a question of identity
  • Part 2. "The land is mine": justice in the marketplace, justice for the Earth, justice in the forum. Prologue to part 2: Neither the margins nor the middle
  • A miniprimer on biblical economics
  • Applying the principles: biblical economics and political philosophies
  • Torah betrayed: current economics in biblical perspective
  • "And God saw that it was good": the Bible, Earth, and the "American way of life"
  • Vines and fig trees in the "days to come": toward justice, sustainability, and democracy
  • But can we do it? Overcoming the impediments
  • Part 3. "Not with swords' loud clashing": violence, justice, and the commonwealth of God. Prologue to part 3: A lifelong struggle and a stable conviction
  • A complex heritage: the Bible on war, peace, and empire
  • Conquest and imperialism in U.S. history: the four hundred years' war
  • Conquest and imperialism continued: the path to perpetual war
  • Justice untempered, justice denied: courtroom, prison, death row
  • Conclusion: Putting away the idols
  • Epilogue: Jazz, gumbo, the Bible, and God.

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