Change Agent Church in Black Lives Matter Times

Urgency for Action

Valerie A. Miles-Tribble (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

492 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0176-2 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the urgent need for a collaborative groundswell to push for justice and positive social change against a range of social evils. Valerie A. Miles-Tribble urges faith leaders and congregants to be prophetic change agents active in public justice witness with interreligious and activist networks.

Volatile social dissonance in America’s urban landscape is the backdrop as Valerie A. Miles-Tribble examines tensions in ecclesiology and public theology, focusing on theoethical dilemmas that complicate churches’ public justice witness as prophetic change agents. She attributes churches’ reticence to confront unjust disparities to conflicting views, for example, of Black Lives Matter protests as “mere politics,” and disparities in leader and congregant preparation for public justice roles. As a practical theologian with experience in organizational leadership, Miles-Tribble applies adaptive change theory, public justice theory, and a womanist communitarian perspective, engaging Emilie Townes’s construct of cultural evil as she presents a model of social reform activism re-envisioned as public discipleship. She contends that urban churches are urgently needed to embrace active prophetic roles and thus increase public justice witness. “Black Lives Matter times” compel churches to connect faith with public roles as spiritual catalysts of change.

Valerie A. Miles-Tribble is associate professor of ministerial leadership and practical theology at the Graduate Theological Union /Berkeley School of Theology in Berkeley, California.

Introduction: Where’s the Church?

Part 1: Societal Perspectives

1. Black Lives Matter Times: Why the Church as Change Agent?

2. Toxic Silence: Rogue Practices, Double Standards, and Lemming Behavior

3. Can Dry Bones Live? Societal Challenges to Solidarity and Survival

Part 2: Theoethical Perspectives

4. Weary Hope: Restorative Ethics in the Praxis of Social Reform Activism

5. God Sees: Engaging a Womanist Theoethical Hermeneutic

Part 3: Contextual Perspectives

6. Doing the Work: Adaptive Methods for Contextual Praxis

7. On the Road to Oz: Urgency for Prophetic Social Change

Erscheinungsdatum	06.08.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 219 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-9787-0176-4 / 1978701764
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-0176-2 / 9781978701762
Zustand	Neuware