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Informationen zum Autor Joseph G. Wright is a professor of political science and co-director of the Global and International Studies (GLIS) program at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of multiple articles and three previous books: Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival , How Dictatorships Work , and Migration and Democracy . Joseph G. Wright is a professor of political science and co-director of the Global and International Studies (GLIS) program at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of multiple articles and three previous books: Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival , How Dictatorships Work , and Migration and Democracy . Allen G. Jorgenson is assistant dean and holds the William D. Huras Chair in Ecclesiology and Church History at Martin Luther University College at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez (Ph.D., Brite Divinity School) currently serves as an Associate Pastor of Discipleship at First United Methodist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. Klappentext In this book leading American Lutheran theologians address the ways in which Christian communities might be mobilized for embodied works of resistance against systemic injustices in our times, and examine how the call to resistance reframes classic Lutheran doctrinal commitments to truth and sacramental theology, and in some cases, redefines them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Ecclesial Practices of Resistance Christine Helmer Chapter 2. Taking Responsibility for Truth: Ecclesial Practices in an Age of Hypocrisy Jan-Olav Henriksen Chapter 3. Embodying Truth in Ecclesial Practices Allen G. Jorgenson Chapter 4. Telling the Truth about Doctrine: Justification and Justice Christine Helmer Chapter 5. Complicity and the Christological Path of Ecclesial Resistance: Summons to a New Catechesis for a Time of Despair Paul R. Hinlicky Chapter 6. Lutheran Ecclesiologies of Resistance: Starting with the Spirit Cheryl M. Peterson Chapter 7. Resisting Tyranny and Polarization: An Ecclesiology of Word and Sacrament from the Midwestern Heartland Amy Carr Chapter 8.Creation Piety and Spiritual Formation Gordon J. Straw Chapter 9. Remembering the Immigrant Experience: The Body of Christ as a Borderless Space to Embrace Our Shared Humanity in the Face of Rising Xenophobia Man Hei Yip Chapter 10. Practicing Jesus Christ in Public, Embodying Resistance Cra ...
