Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World pdf

Walter Brueggemann (nato l'11 marzo 1933) è uno studioso e teologo protestante americano dell'Antico Testamento che è ampiamente considerato uno degli studiosi dell'Antico Testamento più influenti degli ultimi decenni. È una figura importante nel cristianesimo progressista moderno il cui lavoro si concentra spesso sulla tradizione profetica ebraica e sull'immaginazione sociopolitica della Chiesa. Sostiene che la Chiesa deve fornire una contro-narrativa alle forze dominanti del consumismo, del militarismo e del nazionalismo.

Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World pdf da Walter Brueggemann

What is materiality?
Jesus practiced materiality when he healed the bodies of the sick, proclaimed Jubilee to the poor, and fed the five thousand. He practiced materiality over materialism. In Materiality as Resistance, Walter Brueggemann defines materiality as the use of the material aspects of the Christian faith, as opposed to materialism, which places possessions and physical comfort over spiritual values. In this concise volume, Brueggemann lays out how we as Christians may reengage our materiality for the common good. How does materiality inform our faith when it comes to food, money, the body, time, and place? How does it force us to act? Likewise, how is the church obligated to use its time, money, abundance of food, the care and use of our bodies, observance of Sabbath, and stewardship of our world and those with whom we share it? With a foreword from Jim Wallis, Materiality as Resistance serves as a manifesto of Walter Brueggemann’s most important work and as an engaging call to action. It is suited for group or individual study.