Healing God's Earth: Rural Community in the Context of Urban Civilization - Softcover

Kaufman, S. Roy

 
9781620328484: Healing God's Earth: Rural Community in the Context of Urban Civilization
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1620328488 ISBN 13: 9781620328484
Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Rural communities and traditional cultures throughout North America and around the world are being systematically dismantled by the forces of urban civilization. It is no new phenomenon. For over four millennia, the powers of urban civilization have been playing God, oppressing people, and exploiting the earth. This long history has brought us to the brink of disaster in the current economic, ecological, and energy crises confronting the dominant global culture. This book reads the Bible through the lenses of rural communities. The Bible has something to say about the origin and character of urban civilization and the dynamic of its relationship to rural communities. Both Israel in the Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament were engaged in the formation of rural communities of faith living as alternatives to the dominant cultures of the urban civilizations in which they lived. It turns out that local, face-to-face communities, both rural and urban, along with traditional cultures of all stripes, are God's chosen instruments for the subversive, nonviolent disarming of urban civilization and the healing of God's earth.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

S. Roy Kaufman grew up on a farm in the rural Freeman, South Dakota community, where he now lives. As a student in the 1960s, he farmed with his father and worked on his brother's dairy farm. He is a graduate of Freeman Jr. College and Academy, Goshen College, and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He served five rural congregations as pastor, including his home congregation at Freeman. In 2013, he published Healing God's Earth.

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Verlag
Wipf and Stock
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1620328488
ISBN 13 
9781620328484
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
284
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