Research Catalog

Title

The biblical jubilee and the struggle for life : an invitation to personal, ecclesial, and social transformation / Ross Kinsler and Gloria Kinsler.

Author

Kinsler, F. Ross.

Publication

Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, c1999.

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Additional Authors

Kinsler, Gloria.

Description

xix, 170 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Distributive justice > Christianity
• Human ecology > Christianity
• Jubilee (Judaism)
• Sabbath > Biblical teaching

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-166) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The jubilee challenge -- Fulness of life and all God's people -- Today's world -- The champagne glass analogy -- Globalization of the "free market" -- Spiritual alienation, insolidarity and religious proliferation -- Biblical faith -- The exodus and the logic of liberation -- The jubilee vision-the seventh day, the seventh year, the fifth year -- Jesus and the jubilee -- Responsible discipleship -- Personal transformation -- Ecclesial transformation -- Social transformation -- The promised land -- An alternative social posibility -- Today's world -- A Mayan cosmogony -- The sandinista experience -- The earth charter -- Biblical faith -- The land as gift, temptation, responsibilit, and threat -- The tribes of Yahweh -- Sabbath economics -- Responsible discipleship -- Simple lifestyle-the logic of enough -- Convenanting for life -- Ecofeminism -- Abuse of land, labor and life -- Today's world -- Economic and ecological suicide -- Bretton Woods-Fundamentations of our world economy --^
• The commondification of land, labor and life -- Biblical faith -- The monarch and the logic of centralization -- Prophetic denunciation of religion without justice -- Destruction and exile, judgement and rebirth of hope -- Responsible discipleship -- A call for repentance -- On the way: From Kairos to jubilee -- The clamor of the Land -- Sabbath economics, jubilee spirituality, and liberty for all -- Today's world -- Emerging alternatives -- Toward a dvision of an economy of life -- Overcoming the great divorce -- Biblical faith -- Exile and return -- The renewed search for an alternative scial possibilty -- The Deuteronomic and priestly traditions -- The Sabbath year and the jubilee year -- The Isaiah traditions -- Royal decrees -- Responsible discipleship -- The stewardship of our lives -- The stewardship of God's household -- The stewardship of creation -- Jesus' proclamation of God's reign as a jubilee -- Today's world --^
• Socioeconomic structures and prejudices that marginalize and exclude -- Political-ideologican structures and prejudices that marginalize and exclude -- Religious-spiritual structures and prejudices that marginalize and exclude -- Biblical faith -- Encountering the holy among the most vulnerable -- Finding God's word through opennes to others -- Discovering our own humanity by affirming the full humanity of others -- Jesus and the domination system -- Today's world -- 500 years of conquest -- 500 years of economic oppression, patirarchy and racism -- 500 years of entitlement as addiction -- Biblical faith -- Subversive teaching and action -- Creating alternative community -- Confronting structural sin -- Responsible discipleship -- Possiblities for personal recovery -- Possibilities for eclesial renewal -- Possibilities for social transformation -- Jubilee practices in the early church -- Today's world -- The free market econonomy -- Is it humane? -- Free market ideology --^
• Does it have a conscience? -- Privatistic spirituality -- Is it adequate? -- Biblical faith -- Petecost as a jubilee -- The Lord's supper -- The collection for the poor in Jerusalem -- Responsible discipleship -- Borders-walls or bridges? -- Churches-Privileged ghettos or servant communities -- Globalization -Slavery or liberation? -- Jubilee-Celebrating life together -- Recovering times and spaces to be human-The promised land -- Respecting and renewing creation-New heavens and new earth -- Overcoming poverty and wealth-enough is enough for all -- Liberation from debts, slavery, desease, and sin -- Discovering others, finding ourselves -- Going home-identity, security, peace -- working for justice, celebrating life together.

ISBN

1570752893 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99037872^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library