| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Trembling for my country: a reflection on place -- Part 1. "Who is my neighbor?" The tragedy of dreams deferred. Prologue to part 1: A little window on a great big world -- A place reconfigured: memories of the mid-twentieth-century South -- Lessons learned: reflecting on the times -- Adjusting the lenses: the Bible, race, and the unity of humankind -- Ideology against the Bible: a judgment on the past -- Adorning the tombs of the prophets: assessing the present -- Reflections on a sugar house: a question of identity -- Part 2. "The land is mine": justice in the marketplace, justice for the Earth, justice in the forum. Prologue to part 2: Neither the margins nor the middle -- A miniprimer on biblical economics -- Applying the principles: biblical economics and political philosophies -- Torah betrayed: current economics in biblical perspective -- "And God saw that it was good": the Bible, Earth, and the "American way of life" -- Vines and fig trees in the "days to come": toward justice, sustainability, and democracy -- But can we do it? Overcoming the impediments -- Part 3. "Not with swords' loud clashing": violence, justice, and the commonwealth of God. Prologue to part 3: A lifelong struggle and a stable conviction -- A complex heritage: the Bible on war, peace, and empire -- Conquest and imperialism in U.S. history: the four hundred years' war -- Conquest and imperialism continued: the path to perpetual war -- Justice untempered, justice denied: courtroom, prison, death row -- Conclusion: Putting away the idols -- Epilogue: Jazz, gumbo, the Bible, and God |
| Summary |
For the Healing of the Nation offers a serious look at the social and political climate in the United States from a biblical perspective, emphasizing race and ""otherness, "" economics and the environment, and institutional violence (war and capital punishment). An autobiographical thread traces the journey of a white male coming of age in the mid-twentieth-century Deep South as his evolving faith leads him to painful breaks with inherited values and standard views on controversial issues |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-335) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Justice -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Justice -- Biblical teaching.
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Economics -- Biblical teaching
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Economics -- Biblical teaching
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Justice -- Biblical teaching
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Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Justice -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cobb, John B.
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| ISBN |
9781498235402 |
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1498235409 |
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9781498235419 |
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1498235417 |
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