Tuesday, February 28, 2012

IN THE PROCESS OF PUBLICATION ...












BACK COVER TEXT:
Philosophy and theology have increasingly turned to the problem of the rising numbers of people who live in severe conditions of oppression, people who are surplus to global economic and political orders which the oppressed define as "neoliberal" and "neocolonial."
This work, Political Grace: The Gift of Resistance, is part of that turning, through conversations with those who were and still are living under oppressive conditions, especially in Central America and Mexico, and through conversations with phenomenology, feminist theology, feminist jurisprudence, ethics, and liberation theology.
There is an assertion that grace, and the organization of the "lifeworld" which phenomenologists discuss, act in concert to seek to empower the flourishing of humans to understand and resist the abasing conditions they confront.
What frequently occurs when people living under oppressive conditions try to change their circumstances is a backlash by those who control their political, social and economic conditions. In response, the spirit of grace, as part of the human effort to flourish, aids in the resistance against the denial of this flourishing.
-- Wes Rehberg

2 comments:

Wes Rehberg: Writing and Art in the Wild Clearing said...

Proof is on the way -- need to make at least one typographic revision in the way the bibliography is laid out.

Wes Rehberg: Writing and Art in the Wild Clearing said...

Proofed, requested resize to 6" x 9" -- keeping font size and style -- awaiting second proof --