Rumours of a Better Country
Inter-Varsity Press (Verlag)
978-1-78974-467-5 (ISBN)
Hyper-individualism and consumerism are failing to satisfy our hunger for meaning. We face an identity crisis in which real community is increasingly hard to find. The culture wars have been painful and polarising and have proved a poor way to agree any kind of moral standards. Is it even possible to find a vision for goodness that can bring us together?
Rumours of a Better Country addresses our hunger for justice and a better way of living by awakening our moral imagination to the potential of a trusting community. Drawing on ancient wisdom and looking through the lens of daily reality, it shows how trust and trustworthiness must be the foundation for any kind of meaningful freedom.
Through the questions and mysteries of the ‘Café Now and Not Yet’, readers will experience chance encounters with Palestinians in a pub in communist Czechoslovakia, appreciate an intriguing sculpture from Romania and hear post-communist Ukrainians struggling to imagine a better life. Each of these encounters provides a real-life context for a rich and provocative journey into the heart of goodness and why it matters.
During the Cold War, Marsh Moyle and his wife Tuula organised book translation and distribution behind the Iron Curtain. In the post-communist period, they helped people setting up publishing houses across the region, ran a learning community and engaged in research on social issues caused by the changes. His work both under communism and in the adjustment to democracy and free markets gives him a unique perspective from which to engage with the cultural challenges of today. Marsh now travels and teaches across Europe and works alongside L’Abri, a study centre in southern England.
Advice to the Reader
Prologue
Chapter 1. An Invitation to the Cafe Now and Not Yet
Chapter 2. My search for a Better Country
Chapter 3. Out of the Land of Slavery - The Way of Freedom
Chapter 4. Word One - An Invitation
Coffee Break - Transitions
Chapter 5. Word Two - What do you see? - Image and Imagination
Chapter 6. Word Three - What is your Name?
Coffee Break - Reality
Chapter 7. Word Four - What Disturbs You - Finding Sabbath
Chapter 8. Word Five - A Reckoning with History
Coffee Break: Power
Chapter 9. Word Six - Life or Death
Coffee Break - Burnout
Chapter 10. Word Seven - The Possibilities and Problems of Love
Chapter 11. Word Eight - Property and Generosity
Chapter 12. Word Nine - Reality or Illusion
Chapter 13. Word Ten - Envy - Dominion or Domination
Chapter 14. Written on the Heart: The Way of Love
For further reading
Acknowledgments
End Notes
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.10.2023 |
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| Verlagsort | Nottingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78974-467-9 / 1789744679 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78974-467-5 / 9781789744675 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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