A Political Theology of Vulnerability

A Political Theology of Vulnerability
Author: Sturla J. Stålsett
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2023-06-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004543279

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Vulnerability is at the core of the political drama of our time. Countering conventional approaches, this book presents human vulnerability as a source of political community and a potential for political agency in precarity. Analyzing Christian celebrations of Christmas and Easter in contexts of struggle, it shows how religious resources inspire precarious politics. Combining critical political theory, liberation theology, and lived religion, Sturla J. Stålsett sees in such celebrations a ‘political sacralization’ of vulnerability and a ‘dispossession of divinity.’

The Window of Vulnerability

The Window of Vulnerability
Author: Dorothee Sölle
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1990
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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Exploring Vulnerability

Exploring Vulnerability
Author: Heike Springhart
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3647540633

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Vulnerability is an essential but also an intriguing ambiguous part of the human condition. This book con-ceptualizes vulnerability to be a fundamental threat and deficit and at the same time to be a powerful resource for transformation. The exploration is undertaken in multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches the human condition in fruitful conversations with medical, psychological, legal, theological, political and philosophical investiga-tions of vulnerability. The multidisciplinary approach opens the space for a broad variety of deeply interrelated topics. Thus, vulnerability is analyzed with respect to diverse aspects of human and social life, such as violence and power, the body and social institutions. Theologically questions of sin and redemption and eventually the nature of the Divine are taken up. Throughout the book phenomenological descriptions are combined with necessary conceptual clarifications. The contributions seek to illuminate the relation between vulnerability as a fundamental unavoidable condition and contingent actualizations related to specific dangers and risks. The core thesis of the book can be seen within its multi-perspectivity: A sound concept of vulnerability is key to a realistic, that is to say neither negative nor illusionary anthropology, to an honest post-theistic understanding of God and eventually to a deeply humanistic understanding of social life.

Vulnerable Communion

Vulnerable Communion
Author: Thomas E. Reynolds
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1587431777

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A theologian and father of a child with disabilities reveals how disability highlights our common brokenness and need for grace.

A Radical Political Theology for the Anthropocene Era

A Radical Political Theology for the Anthropocene Era
Author: Ryan LaMothe
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-11-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725253569

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Given the fierce urgency of now, this important book confronts and addresses key problems and questions of political theology with the aim of proposing a radical political theology for the Anthropocene Age. LaMothe invites readers to think and be otherwise in living lives in common with all other human beings and other-than-human beings that dwell on this one earth.

The Politics of Jesús

The Politics of Jesús
Author: Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2015-06-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1442250372

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The Politics of Jesús is a powerful new biography of Jesus told from the margins. Miguel A. De La Torre argues that we all create Jesus in our own image, reflecting and reinforcing the values of communities—sometimes for better, and often for worse. In light of the increasing economic and social inequality around the world, De La Torre asserts that what the world needs is a Jesus of solidarity who also comes from the underside of global power. The Politics of Jesús is a search for a Jesus that resonates specifically with the Latino/a community, as well as other marginalized groups. The book unabashedly rejects the Eurocentric Jesus for the Hispanic Jesús, whose mission is to give life abundantly, who resonates with the Latino/a experience of disenfranchisement, and who works for real social justice and political change. While Jesus is an admirable figure for Christians, The Politics of Jesús highlights the way the Jesus of dominant culture is oppressive and describes a Jesús from the barrio who chose poverty and disrupted the status quo. Saying “no” to oppression and its symbols, even when one of those symbols is Jesus, is the first step to saying “yes” to the self, to liberation, and symbols of that liberation. For Jesus to connect with the Hispanic quest for liberation, Jesús must be unapologetically Hispanic and compel people to action. The Politics of Jesús provocatively moves the study of Jesús into the global present.

Narratives of a Vulnerable God

Narratives of a Vulnerable God
Author: William Carl Placher
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664255343

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"This is a book we urgently need!...Those who cling to the notion that theology is dull and remote must be warned away form Placher's lively prose"......Beverly R. Gaventa, Associate Professor of New Testament, Prinction Theological Seminary

Christianity and the Law of Migration

Christianity and the Law of Migration
Author: Silas W. Allard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-09-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000436373

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This collection brings together legal scholars and Christian theologians for an interdisciplinary conversation responding to the challenges of global migration. Gathering 14 leading scholars from both law and Christian theology, the book covers legal perspectives, theological perspectives, and key concepts in migration studies. In Part 1, scholars of migration law and policy discuss the legal landscape of migration at both the domestic and international level. In Part 2, Christian theologians, ethicists, and biblical scholars draw on the resources of the Christian tradition to think about migration. In Part 3, each chapter is co-authored by a scholar of law and a scholar of Christian theology, who bring their respective resources and perspectives into conversation on key themes within migration studies. The work provides a truly interdisciplinary introduction to the topic of migration for those who are new to the subject; an opportunity for immigration lawyers and legal scholars to engage Christian theology; an opportunity for pastors and Christian theologians to engage law; and new insights on key frameworks for scholars who are already committed to the study of migration.

Vulnerability and Glory

Vulnerability and Glory
Author: Kristine A. Culp
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-10-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611640806

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Disasters indicate the complex peril of earthly existence. Suffering and risk are global realities. Yet, the biblical depiction of persons and communities as "earthen vessels" also suggests that vulnerable creatures can be strengthened to receive and bear the grace and glory of God. Culp demonstrates how vulnerability to devastation and to transformation is the very basis for life before God. The glory of God may be witnessed in resistance to inhumanity and idolatry, and expressed in delight and gratitude for the good gifts of life.

Political Affections

Political Affections
Author: Joshua Hordern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199646813

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A theological treatment of the role of affections such as joy, compassion, and shame in contemporary politics. Hordern discusses what affections are and how they play a role in parts of political life such as representation and law. He shows that affections have an intelligent role to play in fostering loyalty, trust and public moral reasoning.