The Bible and the American future
By: edited by Robert Jewett, with Wayne L. Alloway Jr. & John G. Lacey
Publisher: Cascade Books; Wipf & Stock Pub
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781606089934
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Wayne L. Alloway Jr.; title: Recovery from the long nightmare of amnesia  -- Walter Brueggemann; title: America in God's world: perspectives from biblical theology  -- Kenneth L. Vaux; title: Between Armageddon and the world court: reflections on the American prospect  -- Robert Jewett; title: Isaiah, national security, and the politics of fear  -- J.J.M. Roberts; title: Interpreting the prophets and issues of social justice  -- Terence E. Fretheim; title: Bible and American environmental practice: an ancient code addresses a current crisis  -- Sandra Richter; title: Genius of the mad prophet: Ezekiel and the new moral self  -- Jacqueline Lapsley; title: Building hope upon the ruins in Jeremiah  -- Kathleen M. O'Connor; title: Jesus, the poor, and Mammon: a look at values from Luke-Acts  -- Darrell L. Bock; title: Jesus and the renewal of covenantal economics  -- Richard A. Horsley; title: Divine violence in the Christian Bible  -- John Dominic Crossan; title: Cultured pearls: changing the future of America as an exercise in culture-making  -- Ben Witherington III -- Afterword:; title: With God on our side -- John G. Lacey.