Lexington Books
Pages: 230
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-5145-8 • Hardback • June 2018 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-4985-5146-5 • eBook • June 2018 • $99.50 • (£77.00)
Christopher J. Libby is associate professor of religion and philosophy at Missouri Valley College.
Introduction: Setting the Stage: The Prophetic Voice in Contemporary Context
Chapter 1: Doing Justice at the Margins: The Prophetic Voice in Biblical Perspective
Chapter 2: The Comforts of Home: Conventionalism and the Limits of the Prophetic Voice in Michael Walzer’s Political Theory
Chapter 3: The Church versus Liberal Modernity: Communal Closure in Stanley Hauerwas’s Postliberal Ecclesiology
Chapter 4: Prophets, Pragmatism, and Politics: Cornel West’s Democratic Domestication of the Prophetic Voice
Chapter 5: The Prophetic Voice as Realist and Non-Foundationalist: The Contours of a Constructive Christian Account
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About the Author
Libby succeeds in tracing the connection in between claims about the truth and the task of promoting justice and peace. . . Libby's work helps to crystallize a compelling account of how the prophetic voice should be understood in the contemporary U.S. context.
— Peace and Justice Studies