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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - An interdisciplinary call to move from awareness to action against systemic racism. For persons of faith who want to move from awareness to action, Unmasking Racism examines racism across Christian faith and practice in the church, the community, and the academy. The authors take an experientially based, multigenerational, interdisciplinary approach, drawing on contextually diverse and inclusive voices to read racism through sociohistorical, ecclesial, and theological lenses. At the book's center is a constructive claim: that 'love' can be understood as a strategic commitment to exposing systemic racism at every level of Christian faith and practice. Each chapter is grounded in the authors' own individual and collective experiences of wrestling with the sin of racism within various ministerial contexts. From that foundation, the book invites readers to consider love as a commitment to justice, to understanding the experiences of those disempowered by systemic racism, and to act on that understanding. Each chapter closes with action items designed to help readers visualize concrete next steps within their own contexts. Unmasking Racism brings together four authors, Ernest S. Lyght, Michele E. Watkins, Julius E. Del Pino, and Jonathan D. Keaton, each writing from their own experience of confronting the sin of racism in ministerial contexts. The result is an invitation to take a step alongside them: to adopt a set of actions, or a series of processes, for unmasking racism where readers live, worship, and work.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Theosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways: positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound together the various aspects of theology in a coherent whole and also interpreted patristic texts, which experienced a renaissance in the twentieth century, even in Orthodox theology. In the negative sense, contemporary theologians used theosis as a triumphalistic club to beat down Catholic and Protestant Christians, claiming that they rejected theosis in favor of either a rationalistic or fideistic approach to Christian life. The essays collected in this volume move beyond this East-West divide by examining the relation between faith, reason, and theosis from Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant perspectives. A variety of themes are addressed, such as the nature-grace debate and the relation of philosophy to theology, through engagement with such diverse thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Wesley, Meister Eckhart, Dionysius the Areopagite, Symeon the New Theologian, Panayiotis Nellas, Vladimir Lossky, Martin Luther, Martin Heidegger, Sergius Bulgakov, John of the Cross, Delores Williams, Evagrius of Pontus, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The essays in this book are situated within a current thinking on theosis that consists of a common, albeit minimalist, affirmation amidst the flow of differences. The authors in this volume contribute to the historical theological task of complicating the contemporary Orthodox narrative, but they also continue the "theological achievement" of thinking about theosis so that all Christian traditions may be challenged to stretch and shift their understanding of theosis even amidst an ecumenical celebration of the gift of participation in the life of God.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Theosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways: positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound together the various aspects of theology in a coherent whole and also interpreted patristic texts, which experienced a renaissance in the twentieth century, even in Orthodox theology. In the negative sense, contemporary theologians used theosis as a triumphalistic club to beat down Catholic and Protestant Christians, claiming that they rejected theosis in favor of either a rationalistic or fideistic approach to Christian life. The essays collected in this volume move beyond this East-West divide by examining the relation between faith, reason, and theosis from Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant perspectives. A variety of themes are addressed, such as the nature-grace debate and the relation of philosophy to theology, through engagement with such diverse thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Wesley, Meister Eckhart, Dionysius the Areopagite, Symeon the New Theologian, Panayiotis Nellas, Vladimir Lossky, Martin Luther, Martin Heidegger, Sergius Bulgakov, John of the Cross, Delores Williams, Evagrius of Pontus, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The essays in this book are situated within a current thinking on theosis that consists of a common, albeit minimalist, affirmation amidst the flow of differences. The authors in this volume contribute to the historical theological task of complicating the contemporary Orthodox narrative, but they also continue the "theological achievement" of thinking about theosis so that all Christian traditions may be challenged to stretch and shift their understanding of theosis even amidst an ecumenical celebration of the gift of participation in the life of God.…