Name/Title
Thinking theologically about mass incarceration :biblical foundations and justice imperatives /edited by Antonios Kireopoulos, Mitzi J. Budde, and Matthew D. Lundberg.Description
Preface:The churches and the incarceration epidemic /Antonios Kireopoulos, Mitzi J. Budde, and Matthew D. Lundberg. --I. The situation today: 1.An epistle to the American church : "set the captives free" /Michael C. Richardson --2.Christian unity for a fractured society : the problem of mass incarceration for the churches /Antonios Kireopoulos --3.On incarceration : for the sake of our shared future /Michael Redi Trice --4.White supremacy and the church : how white Christians created and perpetuate the ideology of white supremacy /Douglas A. Foster --5.On the other side of the divide /Reginald D. Broadnax and Kenneth Q. James. --II. Biblical reflections: 6.Seventy times seven : offenders, victims, and Jesus' extravagant call to forgive /Gayle Gerber Koontz --7.Considering issues of mass incarceration through the lens of the Beatitiudes /Shirley Paulson --8.How Paul's transformation addresses mass incarceration today /Madelon Maupin --9.The revelation to John, prisoner on the island of Patmos /Don Thorsen. --III. Theological explorations: 10.La Nueva encomienda : the church's response to undocumented migrants as mass incarcerated /Loida I. Martell --11.A beginning understanding of the nature of God's justice and the U.S. justice system /W. Scott Axford --12.Crying out in the wilderness : proclamation, empowerment, and justice --13.Mass incarceration, capital punishment, and penal atonement theories : correlation, or something more? /Greg Carey --14.The prophetic cry for justice : a Pentecostal response to the racism of mass incarceration /Peter Althouse --15."Get on the cart!" : Wesleyan discipleship in an age of endemic incarceration /Benjamin Hartley, Glen Alton Messer II, and Kirsten Sonkyo Oh. --IV. Ecumenical considerations: 16.The problem of empty pews : mass incarceration as a church-dividing issue /Matthew D. Lundberg --17.Common moral ground : can ethics be church uniting? /Mitzi J. Budde. --V. Experiential and practical perspectives: 18.The voices of too many people are silenced /Kenneth Q. James --19.White privilege : my journey with segregation /Frank Lesko --20.Preaching to bridge peoples on issues of race /Joyce Shin --21.Lord, make my troubles light : a historical and spiritual reflection on Quaker work in prisons /Philip Caroom, Rachel Guaraldi, and Ann K. Riggs --22.An introductory prophetic cry against inequities in the American mass incarceration system /David J. Fekete. --Contributors.
xiv, 359 pages ;23 cm.Book Details
Publication Subjects
Imprisonment--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
Social justice--United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00895034
Imprisonment--Religious aspects--Christianity.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00968292
Social justice.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01122603Call No.
HV8687 .T45 2017ISBN
9780809153725, 0809153726LCCN
2017021087Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier
Media type: unmediatednrdamedia
Date: [2017]