Cynicism and hope
Subtitle: reclaiming discipleship in a postdemocratic society
By: edited by Meg E. Cox.
Contributors: Cox, Meg E.
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781606082140
Subjects: Christianity and politics; Hope -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Cynicism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Church and social problems
Notes: Selected addresses from a conference held at Reba Place Church, Evanston, Ill., in Nov. 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119).
Table of contents: title: Cynicism, hope, discipleship, and democracy : an invitation / Tim Nafziger; title: Cynicism and hope: address to participants in the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq, March 2007 / Peter Dula; title: Three cheers for cynicism / Ric Hudgens; title: We wait for hope / Nancy Elizabeth Bedford; title: Philosopher, king : the nature of hope and its place in nonviolent resistance / Gregory A. Clark; title: Cynicism as therapy : seeing the log in our own eye / Dale Suderman; title: Sign of hope : conversations with Iranian religious leaders / Thomas Finger; title: Sink into cynicism or soar into hope? : demonstrating hope and patience at Koinonia Farm / Bren Dubay; title: Democracy and Mammon in Christian perspective : foundations of a nonreactive politics / D. Stephen Long; title: Personal and communal hope in Flannery O'Connor and J.R.R. Tolkien / Ralph C. Wood; title: Theologian in Baghdad / Peter Dula; title: Closing prayer / Charles (Casey) Andrews; title: Ingredients / Ruth Goring.