Truth, Community, and the Prophetic Voice

Michael Walzer, Stanley Hauerwas, and Cornel West on Justice and Peace

Christopher J. Libby

The central concern of Truth, Community, and the Prophetic Voice is to ask how it might be possible today to uphold an understanding of the prophetic voice that comports in essential ways with its expression in the biblical vision, while attending especially to contemporary judgments regarding the epistemological significance of community and concerns about the nature and function of claims to truth. Ultimately and more specifically, Christopher J. Libby hopes to gain some purchase on what an adequate contemporary Christian theological rendering of the prophetic looks like. He argues that it is not only possible to provide a non-foundationalist account of the prophetic voice, but that that voice is able to come truly into its own when cast in a non-foundationalist frame.

Lexington Books

Pages: 230 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4985-5145-8 • Hardback • June 2018 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

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Subjects: Political Science / History & Theory, Political Science / Political Ideologies / General, Religion / Ethics

Truth, Community, and the Prophetic Voice

Michael Walzer, Stanley Hauerwas, and Cornel West on Justice and Peace

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The central concern of Truth, Community, and the Prophetic Voice is to ask how it might be possible today to uphold an understanding of the prophetic voice that comports in essential ways with its expression in the biblical vision, while attending especially to contemporary judgments regarding the epistemological significance of community and concerns about the nature and function of claims to truth. Ultimately and more specifically, Christopher J. Libby hopes to gain some purchase on what an adequate contemporary Christian theological rendering of the prophetic looks like. He argues that it is not only possible to provide a non-foundationalist account of the prophetic voice, but that that voice is able to come truly into its own when cast in a non-foundationalist frame.

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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)

Subjects: Political Science / History & Theory, Political Science / Political Ideologies / General, Religion / Ethics

Author

Christopher J. Libby is associate professor of religion and philosophy at Missouri Valley College.

Table of Contents

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
Bibliography
About the Author

Reviews

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