The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology
Autor Lilian Calles Bargeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 sep 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190695392
ISBN-10: 0190695390
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 236 x 157 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190695390
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 236 x 157 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
...[T]he book brings together insights that, certainly, enrich the debate about these theologies..
...the significance of the book is not restricted to its biographical character, as it tackles some common but misguided views about liberation theology
Innovative and compelling
A comprehensive history of the ideas that constituted early liberation theology. Barger's work provides critical background for understanding contemporary religious demands for social justice that are based in particular contexts, yet intersectional and global in scope.
Sweeping successfully demonstrates how, across the Americas, theologians rejected abstractions in favor of slowly and painfully seeking out something to say about God that spoke to the last, rather than the first.
This book is a major contribution both to church history and religious studies.
Calles Barger provides fascinating vignettes of unexpected connections, such as the friendship between Reverdy Ransom and Jane Addams, or Bonhoeffer's brief sojourn in New York in the early 1930s
The World Come of Age is a word of historical depth and theological insight. Barger's extensive research makes this book an excellent survey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian social thought.
A sweeping transnational intellectual history that runs from the sixteenth-century revolutionary theology of Thomas Münster to the Black Lives Matter movement of today.
[this book] is better -- richer, more layered and complex, and intellectually challenging -- than I expected, or even might have hoped for ... This is a landmark work, whose depth and profundity may keep it off people's beach reading list, but give it a long shelf life in intellectual discussions.
This is an important, comprehensive treatment of the social, political, and theological forces that contributed to the emergence of liberation theologies in the Americas in the 1960s and 1970s... The book is very well researched; the footnotes alone are a valuable resource... Summing Up: Highly Recommended.
As a timely, ambitious, and rigorous intellectual history of liberation theology, The World Come of Age will be of interest to broad academic audiences, especially intellectual and religious historians, as well as scholars and students of liberation theology, political theology, and religious ethics. ... Barger's book displays the vitality of early liberation theology and the ongoing importance of efforts to recover its unappreciated resources for freedom dreams in the present.
This is a landmark work, whose depth and profundity may keep it off people's beach reading list, but give it a long shelf life in intellectual discussions.
This remarkable history should be read by anyone who thinks they understand the relationship between religion and politics. Barger convincingly demonstrates that liberationists participated in the forging of a secular age in which religious claims are a familiar feature of the public sphere. Lucidly written and theoretically nimble, this book will inspire a new generation of activists to think about how their moral calls to reform might change the world.
The intellectual history of liberation theology is an obvious and yet tellingly neglected subject. Lilian Calles Barger has filled a large gap with a perceptive, comprehensive, and gracious book radiating her broad learning and her deep personal engagement with the subject.
Lillian Calles Barger's The World Come of Age is a masterful exploration of the causes, course, and consequences of liberation theology in the twentieth century. Through extensive research across two continents, Barger skillfully weaves together the stories of thinkers and activists from varied backgrounds throughout Latin America and the United States. This book should be required reading for scholars of American and Latin American religious, cultural, and intellectual history.
The World Come of Age is written clearly and compellingly ... Barger makes extraordinary use of both archival material and personal conversations with those at the center of these movements ... The World Come of Age will benefit not only undergraduates and graduate students seeking an entry point into this theological and cultural history but also those studying the cross-pollinating influences of politics and religion in the Americas.
The epilogue of this book sets the hermeneutic for how to judge its object of study...As readers further her intellectual history, they might turn toward Afro-Latinx, queer, and indigenous theological uses of liberationist thinking to challenge racial and sexual violence and its intersection with class.
...the significance of the book is not restricted to its biographical character, as it tackles some common but misguided views about liberation theology
Innovative and compelling
A comprehensive history of the ideas that constituted early liberation theology. Barger's work provides critical background for understanding contemporary religious demands for social justice that are based in particular contexts, yet intersectional and global in scope.
Sweeping successfully demonstrates how, across the Americas, theologians rejected abstractions in favor of slowly and painfully seeking out something to say about God that spoke to the last, rather than the first.
This book is a major contribution both to church history and religious studies.
Calles Barger provides fascinating vignettes of unexpected connections, such as the friendship between Reverdy Ransom and Jane Addams, or Bonhoeffer's brief sojourn in New York in the early 1930s
The World Come of Age is a word of historical depth and theological insight. Barger's extensive research makes this book an excellent survey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian social thought.
A sweeping transnational intellectual history that runs from the sixteenth-century revolutionary theology of Thomas Münster to the Black Lives Matter movement of today.
[this book] is better -- richer, more layered and complex, and intellectually challenging -- than I expected, or even might have hoped for ... This is a landmark work, whose depth and profundity may keep it off people's beach reading list, but give it a long shelf life in intellectual discussions.
This is an important, comprehensive treatment of the social, political, and theological forces that contributed to the emergence of liberation theologies in the Americas in the 1960s and 1970s... The book is very well researched; the footnotes alone are a valuable resource... Summing Up: Highly Recommended.
As a timely, ambitious, and rigorous intellectual history of liberation theology, The World Come of Age will be of interest to broad academic audiences, especially intellectual and religious historians, as well as scholars and students of liberation theology, political theology, and religious ethics. ... Barger's book displays the vitality of early liberation theology and the ongoing importance of efforts to recover its unappreciated resources for freedom dreams in the present.
This is a landmark work, whose depth and profundity may keep it off people's beach reading list, but give it a long shelf life in intellectual discussions.
This remarkable history should be read by anyone who thinks they understand the relationship between religion and politics. Barger convincingly demonstrates that liberationists participated in the forging of a secular age in which religious claims are a familiar feature of the public sphere. Lucidly written and theoretically nimble, this book will inspire a new generation of activists to think about how their moral calls to reform might change the world.
The intellectual history of liberation theology is an obvious and yet tellingly neglected subject. Lilian Calles Barger has filled a large gap with a perceptive, comprehensive, and gracious book radiating her broad learning and her deep personal engagement with the subject.
Lillian Calles Barger's The World Come of Age is a masterful exploration of the causes, course, and consequences of liberation theology in the twentieth century. Through extensive research across two continents, Barger skillfully weaves together the stories of thinkers and activists from varied backgrounds throughout Latin America and the United States. This book should be required reading for scholars of American and Latin American religious, cultural, and intellectual history.
The World Come of Age is written clearly and compellingly ... Barger makes extraordinary use of both archival material and personal conversations with those at the center of these movements ... The World Come of Age will benefit not only undergraduates and graduate students seeking an entry point into this theological and cultural history but also those studying the cross-pollinating influences of politics and religion in the Americas.
The epilogue of this book sets the hermeneutic for how to judge its object of study...As readers further her intellectual history, they might turn toward Afro-Latinx, queer, and indigenous theological uses of liberationist thinking to challenge racial and sexual violence and its intersection with class.
Notă biografică
Lilian Calles Barger was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and immigrated the United States as a child. She received her PhD from The University of Texas at Dallas and is the author of Eve's Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body and Chasing Sophia: Reclaiming the Lost Wisdom of Jesus.