Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the church as a community of believers and calls readers back to the churchâ€™s roots as a community of resistance. Shifting the conversation about church renewal away from theological purity and marketing strategies that embrace cultural norms, and toward â€œembodied noncomplianceâ€ with the dominant culture, Meyers urges a return to the revolutionary spirit that marked Jesusâ€™s ministry.
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Framing his discussion around three poems by twentieth-century Polish poet Anna Kamienska, Meyers casts the nature of faith as a force that stands against anything and everything that engenders death and indignity. He calls for activeâ€”sometimes even subversiveâ€”defiance of the egoâ€™s temptations, of what he terms â€œthe heresy of orthodoxy itself,â€ and of an uncritical acceptance of militarism and capitalism. Each chapter is a poignant and urgent invitation to recover the Jesus Movement as a Beloved Community of Resistance.
Country USA
Manufacturer Yale University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-04-01
Format Kindle eBook

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