Discovering Kenarchy: Contemporary Resources for the Politics of Love
118Discovering Kenarchy: Contemporary Resources for the Politics of Love
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781498200608 |
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Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers |
Publication date: | 09/24/2014 |
Pages: | 118 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.30(d) |
About the Author
Julie Tomlin Arram is a journalist living in London. Her work, which focuses on women's activism, has been published in The Guardian, New Statesman, and Huffington Post. She is director of Words of Colour and a co-founder of Digital Women UK, managing and writing for its website with a particular focus on digital feminism.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Foreword Julie Tomlin Arram ix
Introduction: Resources of Love for Politics of Peace Roger Baydon Mitchell 1
1 The Heart of Love Roger Haydon Mitchell 16
2 The Instatement of Women: Exploring Women's Position as Victim and Perpetrator Julie Tomlin Arram 30
3 The Gift of Woman: A Metaphor of Marginality Sue Mitchell 43
4 Criminal Justice on the Margins: Victims, Perpetrators, and Restorative Relationships Peter McKinney 54
5 The Politics of Gift Stephen Rusk 64
6 Kenarchy and Healthcare Andy Knox 73
7 Seeking the Shalom of the City… Mike Love 83
8 Kenarchy and an Eschatological Hope Martin Scott 92
Bibliography 103
What People are Saying About This
"The authors of Discovering Kenarchy, in combining the concept of kenotic love with the '-archy' of order and relation in socio-political structures, have succeeded in both opening and enlarging the familiar radical inversions and apparent paradoxes of Jesus' teaching. Dismantling the conventionally understood exercise of sovereign power as the only means to peace, the book explores the self-emptying love expressed in the command to love your enemy, and its potential in our own troubled and violent times for transforming the inherently conflictual into a new politics of peace. That is an appeal which reaches far beyond the Christian and the theologian."
Jill Segger, Associate Director, Ekklesia, London, UK
"Discovering Kenarchy is a challenging and thought-provoking book destined to inspire and unsettle. The authors unfold the implications of a politics of radical love in a call to reconfigure relationships and institutions shaped around self-giving, non-violence, the renunciation of power, and sacrifice. The impact of the book lies in the clear commitment of each writer to live out this vision in concrete ways, working for the empowerment and human flourishing of those who are traditionally on the margins. The dedication to the formation of Christ-like relationships of self-giving and peace comes as a tough, but deeply hopeful challenge."
Lucy Peppiatt, Principal, Westminster Theological Centre, Cheltenham, UK
"The patristic conviction that kenosis is a revelation of God's eternal, self-giving love, rather than a temporary relinquishment of 'sovereign power,' is regaining traction. But as Simone Weil says, until the trutheven our theology of the crosshas passed through the flesh as justice, it is a mere phantom. In this collection of essays, the Word (kenosis) becomes flesh-in-action as kenarchy. The authors have offered a prophetic prototype for transposing cruciform revelation into public faith at the messy margins of real-life postmodernity. I'm praying it triggers a landslide!"
Brad Jersak, reader, All Saints of North America Monastery, Abbotsford, BC, Canada