Claiming Your Voice

Claiming Your Voice

Speaking Truth to Power

Vest, Norvene

Liturgical Press

09/2022

232

Mole

Inglês

9780814667934

15 a 20 dias

284

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Contents

Preface xi

Section I
America's Promise

CHAPTER ONE
America's Beginnings 3
The Sacred and Public Policy: America's Promise 8
Founding Heritages 15

CHAPTER TWO
Called to Account 24
A Benevolent World Presence? 24
A Military Attack on Our Homeland and Our Response 26
A Viral Attack on Our Homeland and Our Response 32
The Role of Denial on the Way to Fullness of Life 37

Interlude A
Imperial Consciousness and Prophetic Imagination:
Moses' Story 42

Section II
Witness to De-Formation: The Pathos of God

CHAPTER THREE
Uncritical Confidence in Market Culture 49
Market Culture at Home 50
Market Culture Worldwide: The Bretton Woods Institutions 57
Accountability at World Trade Organization Meetings 62
Challenge to These Signs of the Times 65

CHAPTER FOUR
Overweening Growth in Our Global Empire 68
Pillar 1: Financial Power in Global Empire (Reminder) 71
Pillar 2: Worldwide Corporate Domain of Global Empire 72
Pillar 3: Military Force 76
Challenge to These Signs of the Times 83

Interlude B
Living in Hope 86

CHAPTER FIVE
Denial of Earth's Climate Crisis 90
Planetary Beginnings 90
Climate Impacts 95
Food Production 98
Challenge to These Signs of the Times 104

CHAPTER SIX
Resistance to Diversity 110
Preliminary Thoughts: Biodiversity 110
Structural Racism 116
Challenge to These Signs of the Times 125

Interlude C
How Are We Divided? 131
Chart: Primary Characteristics of Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Cultures 137

Section III
Formative Challenge to Public Policies

CHAPTER SEVEN
Lament and Conversatio 141
Where Is God? 142
Lament: The Prophetic Cry 145
Lament: Benedictine Conversatio 150
Cultural Lament and Turning: Living into the Pattern of Christ's Life 154

CHAPTER EIGHT
Our Task of Prophetic Imagination 161
The God Who Calls 162
Our Faithful Response: Soul-Making 167
Formative Participation in Community Life 173
Spiritual Formation and Denial 179
Participation in Community 183

Appendix A: Practice of Conscious Community 188
Appendix B: For Further Reading 190
Notes 192
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Market culture;American empire;climate crisis;racism;race relation in america;Benedictine;Spirituality;Prophetic imagination;Politics;Community;Public life;Justice;Worship;Virtue;Prophecy;Old Testament