Journey Toward Justice Personal Encounters in the Global South

Name: Journey Toward Justice Personal Encounters in the Global South
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ISBN: 9780801048456

ISBN-10: 0801048451

ISBN-13: 9780801048456

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Authors: Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Joel Carpenter

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Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, one of today's leading Christian scholars reflects on what he has learned about justice through his encounters with world Christianity.Philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff's experiences in South Africa, the Middle East, and Honduras have shaped his views on justice through the years. In this book he offers readers an autobiographical tour, distilling the essence of his thoughts on the topic. After describing how he came to think about justice as he does and reviewing the theory of justice he developed in earlier writings, Wolterstorff shows how deeply…

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List price: $28.00
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 11/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Series Preface


Series Editor's Foreword


Preface



Awakening



Two Awakening Experiences



An Evening in Amman



Questions about Starting from the Wronged



One Difference That Starting from the Wronged Made



Another Difference That Starting from the Wronged Made



Justice and Rights



Opposition to Rights-Talk



What Are Rights?



Rights Grounded in Worth



Why Rights-Talk Is Important



Is Rights-Talk for Expressing Possessive Individualism?



Justice in Scripture



Natural Rights in Three Church Fathers



Justice in the Old Testament



On the Claim That Justice Is Supplanted in the New Testament



Justice in the New Testament



On English Translations of the New Testament



More about Justice in the New Testament



Justice and Love



Justice, Love, and Shalom



Does Scripture Imply a Right Order Conception of Justice?



Righting Injustice



Human Rights



Six Days in South Africa



Art in the Struggle to Right Injustice



On the Blocking of Empathy and the Hardening of Hearts



The Structure of Social Justice Movements



Just Punishment



A Visit to Honduras



St. Paul's Rejection of Retributive Punishment



What Paul Said about the Task and Authority of the State



Justice, Forgiveness, and Punishment



Beauty, Hope, and Justice



Justice and Beauty



Hope



Recap


Index