Opting for the Margins: Postmodernity and Liberation in Christian Theology

by Joerg Rieger

Book Overview

Ideas like the "preferential option for the poor"-arguing that people marginalized by the economy have a claim to "special consideration"-have been among the most significant insights in twentieth-century Christian theology. Arising out of various theologies of liberation, options for the poor and for people at the margins of society have provided major new impulses for biblical studies, systematic theology, church history, ecclesial practice, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019516119X
• ISBN13: 9780195161199
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.7"