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 November 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.