Change Agent Church in Black Lives Matter Times - Urgency for Action

Informationen zum Autor Valerie A. Miles-Tribble is associate professor of ministerial leadership and practical theology at the Graduate Theological Union /American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, CA. Klappentext This book focuses on the urgent need for a collaborative groundswell to push for justice and positive social change against a range of social evils. Valerie A. Miles-Tribble urges faith leaders and congregants to be prophetic change agents active in public justice witness with interreligious and activist networks. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the urgent need for a collaborative groundswell to push for justice and positive social change against a range of social evils. Valerie A. Miles-Tribble urges faith leaders and congregants to be prophetic change agents active in public justice witness with interreligious and activist networks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Where's the Church? Part 1: Societal Perspectives 1. Black Lives Matter Times: Why the Church as Change Agent? 2. Toxic Silence: Rogue Practices, Double Standards, and Lemming Behavior 3. Can Dry Bones Live? Societal Challenges to Solidarity and Survival Part 2: Theoethical Perspectives 4. Weary Hope: Restorative Ethics in the Praxis of Social Reform Activism 5. God Sees: Engaging a Womanist Theoethical Hermeneutic Part 3: Contextual Perspectives 6. Doing the Work: Adaptive Methods for Contextual Praxis 7. On the Road to Oz: Urgency for Prophetic Social Change

Product details

• Authors: Valerie A. Miles-Tribble
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781978701748
• ISBN: 978-1-978701-74-8
• No. of pages: 492
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Political activism, Christianity, Religious ethics, Relating to African American people, Black & Asian Studies, Christian social thought & activity, Religious social & pastoral thought & activity