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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465113103321

Autore

Pregeant Russell

Titolo

For the healing of the nation : a biblical vision / / Russell Pregeant ; foreword by John B. Cobb, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eugene, Oregon : , : Cascade Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4982-3540-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

230.7

Soggetti

Economics - Religious aspects - Christianity

Justice - Religious aspects - Christianity

Economics - Biblical teaching

Justice - Biblical teaching

Electronic books.

United States Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

For the Healing of the Nation offers a serious look at the social and political climate in the United States from a biblical perspective, emphasizing race and ""otherness,"" economics and the environment, and institutional violence (war and capital punishment). An autobiographical thread traces the journey of a white male coming of age in the mid-twentieth-century Deep South as his evolving faith leads him to painful breaks with inherited values and standard views on controversial issues. Critical not only of both major political parties but also of centrist compromises between Right and Left,