In this earnest discussion, revolutionary theologian John Cobb Jr. implores Christian churches to take a more active role in the solution of contemporary issues such as food security and the ever-expanding world population, the welfare system, civil and human rights, the war on drugs, abortion, immigration, and the destruction of ecosystems.
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John B. Cobb Jr. has held many positions including Ingraham Professor of Theology at the Claremont School of Theology, Avery Professor at the Claremont Graduate School, Fullbright Professor at the University of Mainz, and Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Chicago Divinity Schools. His writings include Christ in a Pluralistic Age: God and the World; and, with coauthor Herman Daly, For the Common Good, which was cowinner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
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This book provides a great resource for progressives who want to learn the moral underpinnings for their point of view. This is done on a whole wealth of issues such as globalization, abortion, the environment and gay rights among many others. If you are a christian and a progressive and want to stand up to the "religious right", then I recommend this book!
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This is a great resource. I wasn't sure if I was a true progressive, but I knew I appreciated fact based opinion. This book provides a well informed factual basis for so many of the items identified with progressive Christianity. R Cobb is brilliant and voices he's chosen to the following topics are well chosen. The titles include Religion and Public Schools, Basic rights of Children, Abortion, Human and civil rights, Homosexuality, Social Security, The Penal System, War on Drugs, Immigration, Corporations, Sweatshops, Globalization, Debt, Environmentalism, Food Security, and Global Population. This book is everything a good liberal arts education should be. It is extremely well written and brilliant in it's insight and scope.
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stockholder capitalism, food shortfalls, more humane policies, debt remission, global food security, official lenders, population stabilization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, United Nations, Supreme Court, World Bank, Los Angeles, World War, Discussion Questions, Latin America, Washington Consensus, Third World, New Testament, African Americans, Old Testament, President Bush, Ten Commandments, People-Centered Consensus, Native American, Oxford University Press, World Trade Organization, Amnesty International, Christian Coalition, The Global Population Crisis, Worldwatch Institute, Great Depression New!
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- State of the World 2003 by The Worldwatch Institute on 4 pages
- Operation Rescue by Randall A. Terry in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- When Corporations Rule the World by David C Korten on page 194, and Back Matter
- State of the World 1986: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society by Lester R. Brown on page 288, and Back Matter
- The Culture of Disbelief by Stephen L. Carter on page 20, and Back Matter
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- A New Spiritual Home: Progressive Christianity at the Grass Roots by Hal Taussig on page 113
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