02713cam a2200349 4500 530709862 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780300213768 030021376X B00VEHAG6Q Amazon fcc8c05c-f97b-48c7-8cc1-1bf391a74384 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2179833 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Meyers, Robin. Spiritual Defiance [Libby] : Building a Beloved Community of Resistance. Yale University Press, 2015. History. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 231kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 231kB. Christian Nonfiction. Religion & Spirituality. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A leading voice of progressive Christianity makes a powerful case for faith as a radical way of being in the world</b><br /> During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the church as a community of believers and calls readers back to the church's roots as a community of resistance. Shifting the conversation about church renewal away from theological purity and marketing strategies that embrace cultural norms, and toward "embodied noncompliance" with the dominant culture, Meyers urges a return to the revolutionary spirit that marked Jesus's ministry.<br /> <br /></p> <p>Framing his discussion around three poems by twentieth-century Polish poet Anna Kamienska, Meyers casts the nature of faith as a force that stands against anything and everything that engenders death and indignity. He calls for active—sometimes even subversive—defiance of the ego's temptations, of what he terms "the heresy of orthodoxy itself," and of an uncritical acceptance of militarism and capitalism. Each chapter is a poignant and urgent invitation to recover the Jesus Movement as a Beloved Community of Resistance.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/spiritual-defiance?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/spiritual-defiance?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/spiritual-defiance?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)