THEO 337/338 WI: Bible and Social Justice: Home

"...On Saturday, July 28, 2012, three senior citizens broke into one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world. An eighty-two-year-old Catholic nun, a Vietnam veteran, and a house painter infiltrated the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, complex in the dead of night, smearing the walls with human blood and spray-painting quotes from the Bible. Then they waited to be arrested. What was a simple plan--one far more successful than even its perpetrators expected -- spawned a complex discussion. Among the questions that the infiltration raised: How did three unarmed civilians manage to penetrate one of the most heavily guarded locations in the world, nicknamed the 'Fort Knox of Uranium'? Why does the United States continue to possess more nuclear weaponry than is needed to destroy global civilization many times over? And what does this mean for the day-to-day safety of Americans? In Almighty, Washington Post writer Dan Zak begins with the present-day axis of a seventy-year-old story, exploring how events of the twentieth century -- including the prophecies of a farmer-turned-ascetic named John Hendrix and the early stages of the Manhattan Project in Morningside Heights -- led to one of the most successful and high-profile demonstrations of anti-nuclear activism"--"

"Description: "Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade and a half. In We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan. Iyer asks whether hate crimes should be considered domestic terrorism and explores the role of the state in perpetuating racism through detentions, national registration programs, police profiling, and constant surveillance. She looks at topics including Islamophobia in the Bible Belt; the "Bermuda Triangle" of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria; and the energy of new reform movements, including those of "undocumented and unafraid" youth and Black Lives Matter. In a book that reframes the discussion of race in America, a brilliant young activist provides ideas from the front lines of post-9/11 America. "--"

"Description: Introduction / The original guidelines of the German Christian Faith Movement / The Aryan paragraph in the church and responses / Theological existence today! / What the German Christians want for the church / The history of the "German Christian" Faith Movement / The handbook of the German Christians (1933) / The Jewish question / Our struggle / Speech at the Sports Palace in Berlin / Declaration of the national bishop regarding the events in the Sports Palace / Outline of German theology / German Christians: a people's book : a guide to today's Faith Movement / The German community of Christ: the path to the German National Church / Julius Leutheuser -- Christ in Germany's Third Reich : the nature, the path, and the goal of the German Christian Church Movement / God's word in German : the Sermon on the Mount, Germanized / What do the German Christians want? : 118 questions and answers / Freedom of conscience / Jesus and the Jews! / The Godesberg Declaration and responses / Who is Jesus of Nazareth? /
Translations of excerpts of documents, with introductory essay and introduction to each document."

Description: Baptism and justice / Confirmation and justice / Eucharist and justice / Penance and justice / Marriage and justice / Orders and justice / Anointing of the sick and justice /

Description: Methodological issues : using sacred scripture in economic ethics -- Old Testament. Socioeconomic conditions : Biblical Israel -- Covenant and law -- Prophets -- Wisdom literature -- New Testament. Socioeconomic conditions : first-century Palestine -- Mark -- Matthew -- Luke-Acts -- Pauline letters and James -- Toward a Biblical theology of economic life. A divine order of conditional prosperity -- Gift of divine friendship : imitatio dei -- Gift of one another : mutual solicitude and care for the poor -- Gift of the earth : stewardship -- Summary and conclusions : economic life as participation in God's providence.

Description: Introduction -- The offensiveness of scripture -- Making sense of the Bible. The beginnings of the Bible -- Biblical nonsense -- The resistant Bible. Religion against the Bible -- The Bible in the metropolis -- The Bible as guidebook. Biblical tourism : Eça de Queiros and Mark Twain in Palestine -- The book of Dave versus the Bible -- The Bible, music and nationalism. When Jesus was (nearly) a Scot -- Jonah in Estonia, Joseph in Latvia -- Brucknerian transpositions --Animal Bible. The lion king -- Conversations with donkeys -- The sporting Bible. Wrestling the Bible -- The NASCAR Bible -- The survival of the Bible. Dispelling delusions : Dawkins, Dennett and biblical studies.

"Throughout the book, Thatcher connects theological ideas, with broader, secular thought. It fills a gap in the literature by linking together the diverse themes of sexuality, gender and Christian thought in one coherent volume. Its comprehensive and even handed discussion of these issues will ensure it becomes a vital text in the field"-- Provided by publisher."

--Includes bibliographical references and index.--"It addresses the role the world's major religions will play in bringing either greater peace and justice or hatred and hostility into the global village."

"...offers fresh translations and brief commentary on the Bible's fifteen earliest poems, and explores the power and relevance of these poems, and the ancient mythic themes behind them, for contemporary life at the margins"--Publisher's description. "

This book provides a historical perspective that has been overturned.

"Written for undergraduates, this reference provides comprehensive coverage of the history, issues, and roles of women in religions around the world and across time"

"Description: The antebellum moral polity -- Christ and prohibition in the Constitution? -- Sexuality and the family -- Appetite, avarice-- and an alliance -- The Sabbath and religious authority -- The lottery and the South -- A broad agenda of moral legislation -- Aligning the government against alcohol -- The final step : prohibition."

"Description: School desegregation : trouble ahead -- The heart of the movement : boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, mass demonstrations -- Church visitations : trouble outside, trouble within -- The movement continues : Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, Selma, Louisville -- New directions : new leaders, riots, voices of Southern white ministers, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and a demand for reparations -- The witness does not end : Jordan, McClain, Finlator, Moose, Sanderson, and Frank -- Denominations : movers, shakers, dissidents, reformers, missioners."

Publisher: Nashville : Catholic Bible Press

Subjects: Religion and politics -- United States; United States -- Politics and government; Bible -- Influence

"Description: Contents: Introduction / Frances Flannery and Rodney A. Werline -- pt. 1 The Bible in Contemporary Political Debate. The Bible and Family Values / Andrew Klumpp and Jack Levison -- Diasporas "R" Us : Attitudes toward Immigrants in the Bible / Hector Avalos -- Ending a Life That Has Not Begun : Abortion in the Bible / Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte -- Senators, Snowballs, and Scripture : The Bible and Climate Change / Frances Flannery -- Work, Poverty, and Welfare / Rodney A., Werline -- Culture Wars, Homosexuality, and the Bible / Jonathan L. Jackson -- The Bible and the Divine Sanctioning of Governments / Colleen Shantz -- Teaching Evolution versus Creationism / Daniel K. Falk -- pt. 2 The Bible in Historical Political Debate."