Download or read book Embracing Hopelessness written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book God of the Oppressed written by James H. Cone and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mixtus Americans Salvation From Oppressive Sin written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deliverance from Oppression written by Lindy Lane and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliverance from Oppression tells the story of the author's life before becoming a Christian, detailing the trauma, self-destruction, and abuse she suffered, as well as the salvation she found in God's Word. Lindy Lane writes about her experiences as a young woman searching for love in the wrong places to substitute the love she lacked from her parents. Following her journey from childhood to adulthood, Deliverance from Oppression describes the drug abuse, poverty, heartbreak, and crime she was exposed to, and the decisions she made to overcome her past mistakes. She traveled the country looking for salvation and acceptance, and found good Christian people to help her turn her life around. Still a young woman, she had the courage to save her son and herself from a life of sin and follow God's path. Lindy Lane's Deliverance from Oppression shows that everyone has a chance at peace when they look to God for strength, grace, and love.
Download or read book A Black Theology of Liberation written by James H. Cone and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The classic text in black theology, with a new foreword by Peter J. Paris and a new afterword by Kelly Brown Douglas"--
Download or read book A Theology of Liberation written by Gustavo Gutierrez and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Spiritually Oppressed written by Michael J. Gerard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flowers For Momma By Linda Gangi Alessi Flowers For Momma is an ethnic novel encompassing three generations. It scans a period of seventy years following the arrival in America of two young men from Sicily who join the Maggio family. They invited John Turso to their home for a two-fold reason an arranged marriage for the younger daughter, Rosa and a helpmate for the father in his bakery business. They were surprised when Benny came too, and who would affect all the lives he touched. Connie Turso, the child of the union of John and Rosa Turso is estranged from her mother, Rosa, and the rest of the family for many years. She comes back to visit her dying mother. They both share a secret. It is in this homecoming that mother and daughter interact and unveil themselves as never before, each realizing the value of the other and the frustration of their lives
Download or read book Salvation as Praxis written by Wayne Morris and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sin Salvation in Baptist Town written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains reproductions of approximately 80 photos, dated 2006-2017.
Download or read book The Economy of Salvation written by Luigino Bruni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Defining Salvation in the Context of Black Theology written by James T. Murphy, Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An initial introduction to the study of Christian theology is both exciting and invigorating for students of its discipline. One can become enameled in the classic perspectives of theology without any consideration of a possible alternative. Defining Salvation in the Context of Black Theology is an exit from the classic conviction that trumpets the doctrine of soteriology attributing its substance to the posture of eternity while ignoring the importance of salvation in the existential. Careful not to reject the question of eternal life, but examining the nuances of the term "salvation" empowers this work to present the like manner essential that having salvation is just as much about "now" than it is in the here after.
Download or read book The Need of Salvation written by Nancy M. Mency and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Need of Salvation written by Nancy M. Mency and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hope for the Oppressor written by Patrick Oden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liberating work of God calls the oppressed out of oppression and the oppressor out of oppressing. The challenge in seeking a thorough liberation of oppressors is to help them understand their need for freedom and how to seek this freedom in their own contexts. Patrick Oden provides a holistic biblical, historical, and theological analysis that diagnoses the underlying motivations and inclinations that lead to oppression. Part one addresses the context of oppression, in which most participants in oppression do not actively seek to harm others but are caught up in systems that tend toward the diminishment of others. Part two examines the biblical and early Christian response to oppression, discovering a thread that avoids condemning participation in society generally while also cautioning the people of God about being co-opted by society. Part three discusses how oppressors can withdraw from oppression, through a constructive analysis of four contemporary theologians—Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jürgen Moltmann, Sarah Coakley, and Jean Vanier—each of whom contributes to a widening vision of liberated and liberating life in which the once-oppressed and former oppressor can find peace together in community.
Download or read book Jesus and the Disinherited written by Howard Thurman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No other publication in the twentieth century has upended antiquated theological notions, truncated political ideas, and socially constructed racial fallacies like Jesus and the Disinherited. Thurman’s work keeps showing up on the desk of anti-apartheid activists, South American human rights workers, civil rights champions, and now Black Lives Matter advocates.” –Rev. Otis Moss III, author of Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World and senior pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ A commemorative edition of the work that inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and helped shape the civil rights movement In this beautiful gift edition of the classic theological treatise, complete with a place-marker ribbon and silver gilded edges, celebrated theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1899–1981) revolutionizes the way we read the gospel. Thurman lifts Jesus up as a partner in the pain of the oppressed and reveals the gospel as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. In this view, the example of Jesus’s life shows us that hatred does not empower—it decays. Only by recognizing fear, deception, contempt, and love of one another can God’s justice prevail. With a new foreword by acclaimed womanist theologian Kelly Brown Douglas, this edition of Jesus and the Disinherited is a timeless testimony of faith that demonstrates how to thrive and flourish in a world that attempts to destroy one’s humanity from the inside out. Having witnessed firsthand the depths of white supremacy and the heights of human civility, Thurman reiterates the inherent dignity of all of God’s children.
Download or read book God s Glory in Salvation through Judgment written by James M. Hamilton Jr. and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Exodus 34 Moses asks to see God's glory, and God reveals himself as a God who is merciful and just. James Hamilton Jr. contends that from this passage comes a biblical theology that unites the meta-narrative of Scripture under one central theme: God's glory in salvation through judgment. Hamilton begins in the Old Testament by showing that Israel was saved through God's judgment on the Egyptians and the Caananites. God was glorified through both his judgment and mercy, accorded in salvation to Israel. The New Testament unfolds the ultimate display of God's glory in justice and mercy, as it was God's righteous judgment shown on the cross that brought us salvation. God's glory in salvation through judgment will be shown at the end of time, when Christ returns to judge his enemies and save all who have called on his name. Hamilton moves through the Bible book by book, showing that there is one theological center to the whole Bible. The volume's systematic method and scope make it a unique resource for pastors, professors, and students.
Download or read book The Church Struggle in South Africa written by John W. De Gruchy and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No more heartrending yet hopeful case study in Christian ethics exists than in the story of South African apartheid and its recent decisive transformation. John de Gruchy's authoritative and newly updated account of Christian complicity with and then resistance to one of the world's most notoriously repressive regimes holds indispensable lessons and "dangerous memories" for all concerned about evil, justice, and racial reconciliation.
