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Embracing Hopelessness

By de la Torre, Miguel A

Embracing Hopelessness book

Embracing Hopelessness

By de la Torre, Miguel A

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This book will attempt to explore faith-based responses to unending injustices by embracing the reality of hopelessness. It rejects the pontifications of some salvation history that move the faithful toward an eschatological promise that, when looking back at history, makes sense of all Christian-led brutalities, mayhem, and carnage. Hope, as an illusion, is responsible for maintaining oppressive structures. This book struggles with a God who at times seems mute, demanding solidarity in the midst of perdition and a blessing in the midst of adversity. How can the Creator be so invisible during the troubling times in which we live-times filled with unbearable life-denying trials and tribulations? The book concludes with a term De La Torre has coined in other books: an ethics para joder-an ethics that "f*cks with." When all is hopeless, when neoliberalism has won, when there exists no chance of establishing justice, the only choice left for the oppressed is to "screw" with the structure, literally turning over the bankers' tables at the temple. By upsetting the norm, an opportunity might arise that can lead us to a more just situation, although such acts of defiance usually lead to crucifixion. Hopelessness is what leads to radical liberative praxis.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2017-10-01
Publication Date:
2017-10-01
Publisher:
Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1506433413
ISBN13:
9781506433417
Weight:
323 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
226 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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