Let Justice Roll Prophetic Challenges in Religion, Politics and Society

by Riemer, Neal; Auerbach, Bruce E.; Pottenger, John R.

• ISBN13: 9780847681921
• ISBN10: 0847681920
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Written by prominent scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this diverse collection of essays discusses the contemporary relevance of the prophetic mode and challenges in the areas of religion, politics, and society. The contributors critically investigate the creative interaction between the religious and secular domains and explain how the prophetic mode can provide solutions to pressing problems such as war, oppression, poverty, hunger, and discrimination. The essays explore possibilities of achieving an integration of prophetic ethics, social scientific understanding, and democratic and constitutional statecraft and they describe how the prophetic mode currently manifests itself in political philosophy, history, religion, and literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
The Origin and Nature of Prophetic Political Engagement in Ancient Israel	p. 1
Prophecy and Social Criticism	p. 23
Politics and the Prophetic Tradition in Christianity	p. 39
Prophetic Tradition and the Liberation of Women: A Story of Promise and Betrayal	p. 59
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Prophetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century America	p. 71
The Prophetic Tradition in Afro-America	p. 89
The Prophetic Mode and Challenge in Literature	p. 101
The American Catholic Bishops and Prophetic Politics	p. 115
Liberation Theology, Prophetic Politics, and Radical Social Critique: Quo Vadis?	p. 133
Reinhold Niebuhr, Political Realism, and Prophetic Politics	p. 155
Intergenerational Justice and the Prophetic Tradition	p. 169
The Prophetic Mode and Challenge, Creative Breakthroughs, and the Future of Constitutional Democracy	p. 187
Select Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 219
About the Contributors	p. 229
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