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Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation: Prophetic Christianity

Autor Peter Goodwin Heltzel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 noi 2012
In Resurrection City Peter Heltzel paints a prophetic picture of an evangelical Christianity that eschews a majority mentality and instead fights against racism, inequality, and injustice, embracing the concerns of the poor and marginalized, just as Jesus did. Placing society's needs front and center, Heltzel calls for radical change and collective activism modeled on God's love and justice. In particular, Heltzel explores the social forms that love and justice can take as religious communities join together to build "beloved cities." He proclaims the importance of "improvising for justice" -- likening the church's prophetic ministry to jazz music -- and develops a biblical theology of shalom justice. His vision draws inspiration from the black freedom struggle and the lives of Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, and Martin Luther King Jr. Pulsing with hope and beauty, Resurrection City compels evangelical Christians to begin "a global movement for love and justice" that truly embodies the kingdom of God.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802867599
ISBN-10: 0802867596
Pagini: 219
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Seria Prophetic Christianity


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Cornel West-- Union Theological Seminary"Peter Heltzel is a jazz-infused theologian par excellence! Don't miss this gem of a book."Shannon Craigo-Snell-- Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary"Jazz musicians can improvise because they are so rooted in musical traditions, because they know the standards so well. This grounding allows for the freedom to create something that is both continuous with the past and open to a new future. Theology, claims Peter Heltzel, should be like improvisational jazz -- various traditions coming together in an ongoing continuity that is always new. In "Resurrection City" Heltzel performs just this kind of theology. Deeply grounded in Scripture, history, music, and the struggle for justice, Heltzel improvises a prophetic Christian theology of hope. Both scholarly and accessible, "Resurrection City" is a virtuoso performance."Eldin Villafa e-- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary"This is an informative, provocative, and timely book -- a gift to the church as it seeks the shalom of the city."George E. Lewis-- Columbia University"Heltzel's extraordinary theology prophetically re-imagines the future of Christianity through improvisation, the lifeblood of creative music around the world, enacting a clarion call to assembly that exhorts us toward a spiritual practice affirming the twinned imperatives of justice and love."J. Kameron Carter-- Duke University Divinity School"Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. and the notion of 'Resurrection City, ' Peter Heltzel, a leading thinker of his generation of American evangelicals, presents here arguably the most cogent theological engagement with race and the American evangelical world available today, even as he locates his engagement within a wider frame -- a vision for an evangelicalism of the future. This, Heltzel lyrically argues, will be an evangelicalism that dares to love as God loves. It is a jazz-inflected, musical evangelicalism -- an evangelicalism that engages its past, that negotiate

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