Seek the Peace of the City

by Richard Bourne and Professor Richard Bourne

Book Overview

Seek the Peace of the City provides a robust engagement with the theological foundations and practices of Christian social and political criticism. Richard Bourne identifies a theological realism found in the work of John Howard Yoder. This realism bases social and political criticism in the purposes of a nonviolent, patient, and reconciling God. Bourne develops this account and shows how it is consonant with aspects of the work of a range of contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556356420
• ISBN13: 9781556356421
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"