Drawing heavily on the work of Walter Brueggemann, Bouma-Prediger and Walsh have the following to say about a biblical economic vision: A covenantal/prophetic perspective “holds that the haves and the have-nots are bound in community to each other, that viable life depends upon the legitimate respect, care and maintenance of the have-nots and upon the restraint […]
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It’s hardly news that upper and middle class people tend to view the poor as dirty, chaotic, and even dangerous. Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh contend that this habitus (set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior, and taste) needs to be understood if we’re to understand the structural barriers faced by homeless people: Insofar as morality […]
I’ve had Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh’s Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement sitting on my bookshelf since early fall, but haven’t gotten around to cracking it until now. If the rest of the book is as good as the two paragraphs below, I’ll be kicking myself for waiting so long: Displacement. To […]
I should have read Rowan Williams a long time ago. His brilliance as a theologian has been mentioned by many, which I can now confirm first-hand. For example, in Tokens of Trust, Williams mentions that William Paley’s (in)famous watchmaker analogy isn’t very helpful, and goes on to say: The one thing belief in a creator doesn’t […]
After saying that big is bad, one of the writers chiefly responsible for my opposition to all things large has to go and ruin my simple categories. This passage from Wendell Berry’s Life is a Miracle is to blame: Freedom in both science and art probably depends upon enlarging the context of our work, increasing (rather […]
Terry Eagleton has become one of my go-to authors for pure enjoyment in reading, as he takes on loaded topics with wit, humor and penetrating insight. He had the audacity to pen a book called “The Meaning of Life,” from which this quote comes: Religious fundamentalism is the neurotic anxiety that without a Meaning of meanings, […]
