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Author: John A. Buehrens ,
Rebecca Ann Parker
Publisher: Beacon Press
Imprint: Beacon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.221kg
ISBN: 9780807001509
ISBN 10: 0807001503
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 03 May 2011
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General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A thoughtful meditation on religion, duty, and the common good. --Booklist <br> To some observers, religion and conservatism have become inextricably fused. But to [Buehrens and Parker], something new is emerging--a liberal religious renaissance. --Steven Levingston, The Washington Post <br> For nearly three decades, journalists and pundits have focused on the views and beliefs of the Religious Right and basically ignored members of America's mainline and liberal Protestant establishment. . . . [Buehrens and Parker] have set out to reintroduce people to the riches and bounties of progressive religion. --Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice <br> Buehrens and Parker begin with the life of service and work for justice and deepen it to show the implicit beliefs that it assumes and that are implicit in it. They show that progressive Protestants can be proud and articulate about their beliefs. --John B. Cobb Jr., coauthor of For the Common Good <br>g ourt
Progressive Protestants are committed primarily to the healing and creative transformation of themselves, their neighbors, and their world. They often experience 'theology' primarily as ideas and teachings that are authoritatively presented and hamper more than they help the work of the followers of Jesus. Their lack of a positive theology is one reason for their marginalization in today's religious scene. Buehrens and Parker begin with the life of service and work for justice and deepen it to show the implicit beliefs that it assumes and that are implicit in it. They show that progressive Protestants can be proud and articulate about their beliefs.--John B. Cobb, Jr., coauthor of @lt;i@gt;For the Common Good@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; To make hope something more than just another four-letter word we all need some positive evidence, which is just what this solid and well-crafted book supplies. Bombarded as we are by so much sound and fury from the religious right, we also need a cre
A thoughtful meditation on religion, duty, and the common good. --Booklist <br> To some observers, religion and conservatism have become inextricably fused. But to [Buehrens and Parker], something new is emerging--a liberal religious renaissance. --Steven Levingston, The Washington Post <br> For nearly three decades, journalists and pundits have focused on the views and beliefs of the Religious Right and basically ignored members of America's mainline and liberal Protestant establishment. . . . [Buehrens and Parker] have set out to reintroduce people to the riches and bounties of progressive religion. --Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice <br> Buehrens and Parker begin with the life of service and work for justice and deepen it to show the implicit beliefs that it assumes and that are implicit in it. They show that progressive Protestants can be proud and articulate about their beliefs. --John B. Cobb Jr., coauthor of For the Common Good <br> . . D
A thoughtful meditation on religion, duty, and the common good. --Booklist <br><br> To some observers, religion and conservatism have become inextricably fused. But to [Buehrens and Parker], something new is emerging--a liberal religious renaissance. --Steven Levingston, The Washington Post <br><br> For nearly three decades, journalists and pundits have focused on the views and beliefs of the Religious Right and basically ignored members of America's mainline and liberal Protestant establishment. . . . [Buehrens and Parker] have set out to reintroduce people to the riches and bounties of progressive religion. --Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice <br> <br> Buehrens and Parker begin with the life of service and work for justice and deepen it to show the implicit beliefs that it assumes and that are implicit in it. They show that progressive Protestants can be proud and articulate about their beliefs. --John B. Cobb Jr., coauthor of For the Common Good <br>
Author Information
John A. Buehrens was president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1993 to 2001 and is now minister of the First Parish Church in Needham, Massachusetts. He is coauthor of A Chosen Faith and author of Understanding the Bible. Rebecca Ann Parker is president of and professor of theology at Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California, and coauthor of Saving Paradise and Proverbs of Ashes. An ordained United Methodist minister, Parker has dual fellowship with the United Methodist Church and the Unitarian Universalist Association.
