Care of Souls, Care of Polis
Subtitle: Toward a Political Pastoral Theology
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781498205214
Subjects: Pastoral theology
Description: "In the fields of pastoral care and pastoral theology, there are times when a book signals a paradigm shift. This is one such book. LaMothe develops a political pastoral theology that is used to examine critically political, economic, and societal structures and practices. In the first part of the book, LaMothe argues that care and pastoral care are political concepts, which, along with the notion of justice, can be used as a hermeneutical framework to assess macropolitical and macroeconomic realities. Included in this section is the notion of civil and redemptive discourse, necessary for the survival and flourishing of persons and polis. The last section of the book examines U.S. empire, capitalism, class, classism, and other pressing political issues using the hermeneutical lens of care."--