(DOWNLOAD) "Beyond Service: What Justice Requires." by Currents in Theology and Mission * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Beyond Service: What Justice Requires.
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 246 KB
Description
Lutherans write much on the subject of justification, but they have less to say about justice. Karen Bloomquist's work, as a writer, a theologian, and an administrator, speaks into that silence. Bloomquist's commitment to justice began early in her calling. She let her experience as a pastor shape her graduate work at Union Theological Seminary. Her first book, The Dream Betrayed, examined how the realities of race and gender, class and ethnicity altered "the American dream." (1) Pastoring a low-income congregation prompted Karen to interrogate the structures that created class. Later, as Karen joined the Division for Church in Society in the merged Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1988, she worked to create structures that would foster moral discernment. Under her leadership and with her collaboration, the first document produced by that unit offered a structure for congregational moral deliberation. (2) Though subsequent statements treating the social issues of that time would all begin with the obligatory understanding of context, behind them all was a structure for deliberation. In front of them was an invitation to change.