Elisabeth moltmann-wendel biography of mahatma gandhi
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For some time, I have had a strong sermon-on-the-mount (pacifist? nonviolent?) impulse when it comes to my political theology. While a few years ago I might have gone so far as to identify as something of an Anabaptist on this issue (what can I say? I was listening to a lot of Greg Boyd podcasts!), I’ve since found Moltmann’s more nuanced approach to be helpful: The Kingdom of God is not a peaceable kingdom (jib-jab at Hauerwas!) but a peacemaking kingdom. Moltmann shares that when he returned home from the prison camps after WWII, he vowed to never pick up a weapon again – but if he was given an opportunity to kill a tyrant, he would do so!
The method of nonviolent resistance is something I’ve always admired in Martin Luther King Jr. In Stride Toward Freedom, King describes his approach this way:
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolence resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violence resister, but he resisted wi th love instead of hate. True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power, as Niebuhr contends. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of l
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Christ and Context: The Confrontation between Gospel and Culture 9781474281508, 9781472549600, 9781474281515
Table of contents :
Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Preface
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Future of Theology in a Complex World
On Being Theologically Responsible
The Problem of Complexity and Culture
Context, Culture and God's Presence
Cultures and the Agenda for Theology
Precedents for Such Concerns
The Failings of Theology
Moving Beyond Our Bad Habits
Approaching the Task of Theology
Theology as Poesis
The New Form of Wisdom
The Needs of a Creative Poesis
3. The Truth Looks Different from Here
Responses by Jurgen Moltmann and Sue Patterson
Reply by Janet Martin Soskice
4. Joy in the Midst of Suffering
Introduction
1. Doing Theology
2. Poverty
3. Job
Conclusion
Responses by John de Gruchy and Stephen May
Reply by Gustavo Gutierrez
5. Christ in Feminist Context
I. Can a Male Saviour Save Women?
II. Relationship and its Consequences
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III. Traces of a Feminist Christology
Responses by Janet Martin Soskice
Response by Veronica Brady
6. Christian Witness and the Transformation of Culture Society in Transition
Discerning the Kairos in a Period of Political Transition
The Church in South Africa as the Mirror Image of Cultural D•
Presentation at a conference be frightened of the Women's Federation home in on World Not worried, on "Concluding the Common Nations Dec on a Culture ceremony Peace," Town, France, June 5-7, 2009
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