The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic

By Obery M. Hendricks Jr.

In these passionate and wide-ranging essays Obery Hendricks offers a challenging engagement with spirituality, economics, politics, contemporary Christianity, and the abuses committed in its name. Among his themes: the gap between the spirituality of the church and the spirituality of Jesus; the ways in which contemporary versions of gospel music "sensationalize" todays churches into social and political irrelevance; how the economic principles and policies espoused by the religious right betray the most basic principles of biblical tradition they claim to hold dear; and the domestication of Martin Luther Kings message to foster a political complacency that dishonors Kings sacrifices.

Hendricks concludes with a stinging rebuke of the religious rights idolatrous "patriotism" in a radical manifesto for those who would practice "the politics of Jesus" in the public sphere.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00DF8PQFS
• ISBN13: 9781570759406
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.5"