The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections On The Bible, The Church, And The Body Politic
by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr

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    Orbis Books (Nov 01, 2011)
    Paperback, 256 pages
    Nonfiction

    Description of The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections On The Bible, The Church, And The Body Politic by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr


    In these passionate and wide-ranging essays Obery Hendricks offers a challenging engagement with spirituality, economics, politics, contemporary Christianity, and the abuses committed in its name. Among his themes: the gap between the spirituality of the church and the spirituality of Jesus; the ways in which contemporary versions of gospel music sensationalize today s churches into social and political irrelevance; how the economic principles and policies espoused by the religious right betray the most basic principles of the same biblical tradition they claim to hold dear; the domestication of Martin Luther King s message to foster a political complacency that dishonors King s sacrifices. He ends with a stinging rebuke of the religious right s idolatrous patriotism in a radical manifesto for those who would practice the politics of Jesus in the public sphere.


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