A Church for the World: The Church’s Role in Fostering Democracy and Sustainable Development - Softcover

 
9781978710795: A Church for the World: The Church’s Role in Fostering Democracy and Sustainable Development
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1978710798 ISBN 13: 9781978710795
Verlag: Fortress Academic, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A Church for the World: The Church's Role in Fostering Democracy and Sustainable Development challenges theologians and lay readers alike to think about the role of the church vis-à-vis its responsibility to the world. How may the church contribute to democracy and foster sustainable development? Contributors from mostly non-Western theological communities offer historical, developmental, ecclesiastical, and theological perspectives on the church-world relationship, challenging misconceptions and practices that prevent the church from living up to its transformational vocation as salt and light in the world (Matt. 5:13-16). The driving force behind the questions and perspectives discussed here is Gustavo Gutierrez's axiom in A Theology of Liberation: A theology which fails to address the most urgent needs of ordinary people is not worthy of the word "theology." Proceeding from this insight, this book creates awareness about the relationship between religion, democracy, and development, and aims to strengthen the self-understanding of the church with regard to its responsibilities in the world.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Samuel Yonas Deressa is associate professor of theology and the Global South, the Fiechtner Chair for Christian Outreach, and director of DCO Program at Concordia University St. Paul, Minnesota.

Josh de Keijzer (PhD Systematic Theology, Luther Seminary) is the author of Bonhoeffer's Theology of the Cross: The Influence of Luther in "Act and Being".

Andrew DeCort is director of the Institute for Faith and Flourishing.

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Verlag
Fortress Academic
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1978710798
ISBN 13 
9781978710795
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
284
Herausgeber
Deressa Samuel Yonas
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