Seasons of Faith and Conscience: Explorations in Liturgical Direct Action

Wylie Kellermann, Bill

ISBN 10: 1556359233 / ISBN 13: 9781556359231

Published by Wipf & Stock Pub, 2008

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• Title: Seasons of Faith and Conscience: Explorations in Liturgical Direct Action
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556359233
• ISBN 13: 9781556359231
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

Seasons of Faith and Conscience challenges religious activists and the wider church with an answer to the question: What is the connection between faith and politics? "Every act of worship," Kellermann says, "every occasion where the sovereignty of the word of God is acknowledged, is always and everywhere expressly political." In a profound biblical and theological reflection, Kellermann begins by investigating the political implications of worship and liturgy, both in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament. He goes on to review the history of "confessional politics," those situations in which Christians have felt their historical situation to be so grave as to call into question the very identity of the church. Recent examples include the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany and the Kairos document from South Africa. Kellermann explores analogies in our own situation--the continuing arms buildup, the international debt system, and the "war against the poor" in the Third World. Seasons of Faith and Conscience concludes with a series of moving meditations on the key seasons and events of the liturgical calendar: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost.

About the Authors

Bill Wylie Kellermann is a United Methodist pastor who has served city parishes in Detroit, Michigan, and is currently director of Graduate Theological Urban Studies for the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education of Chicago, Illinois. A graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, he is also a frequent contributor to Sojourners and other publications, often on topics framed biblically by ""the principalities and powers.""

Jim Wallis is Editor-in-Chief of 'Sojourners' magazine. His other books include 'Faith Works' and 'The Soul of Politics.'