Opting for the Margins: Postmodernity and Liberation in Christian Theology (Aar Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series) - Hardcover

Rieger, Joerg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019516119X ISBN 13: 9780195161199

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2003

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The 'preferential option for the poor' - the idea that the poor and helpless have a claim to special consideration from society - has been one of the most significant developments in twentieth-century Christian theology. The essays in this volume show how some forms of postmodern thought and theology can mask patterns of oppression and provide an excuse for deafness to voices from the margins. The authors, writing from a wide variety of national, ethnic, and theological perspectives, seek to revive the preferential option for the poor for the postmodern world, showing how options for the margins can engage postmodernity in new ways and break new ground in religious, theological, and ethical, as well as social, political, and economic thinking.

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Joerg Rieger is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of God and the Excluded: Visions and Blindspots in Contemporary Theology (2001) and Remember the Poor: The Challenge to Theology in the Twenty-First Century (1998).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 019516119X
• ISBN 13: 9780195161199
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Herausgeber: Rieger Jeorg
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland