The Prophetic Imperative: Social Gospel in Theory and Practice [Paperback]

Richard S. Gilbert (Author)

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• Paperback: 191 pages
• Publisher: Skinner House Books (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558964118
• ISBN-13: 978-1558964112
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars About the 2nd Edition of 2000, August 4, 2011

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This review is from: The Prophetic Imperative: Social Gospel in Theory and Practice (Paperback)

"This is not a how-to-save-the-world book, but a challenge to mind and conscience in the context of a church community.

We have perhaps learned that true self-actualization, salvation, and fulfillment have to do with personal meaning and social responsibility.

We are in the process of learning that church social action is not a small band of marginal activists in the church decrying church inaction or seeking to represent the whole church. Rather, it is a congregational practice of coming to terms with the mission of the religious community in a society that sometimes confuses the separation of church and state with the divorce of religion and public policy."

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This is the revised second edition of a book previously published under similar, but not identical titles.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Theoretical Foundations
- Living Under the Prophetic Imperative
- Confessions of a Militant Mystic
- Meeting the Wind We Inherit
- Harnessing Our Deepest Explosions
- A Covenant of Unenforceable Obligations

Social Gospel in Practice
- In Defense of Church "Interference"
- Congretional Mobilization for Justice
- Ten Commandments for Social Action
- To Change the World

Bibliography
Index