Living Faith : How Faith Inspires Social Justice
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What impels a Mohandas Gandhi or a Martin Luther King, Jr.? How does religious experience animate a lifetime of dedication and drive for social justice?
In this instructive and inspiring account, Christian ethicist Curtiss DeYoung profiles three of the most dynamic and influential religious activists of the 20th century: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Malcolm X, and Aung San Suu Kyi – each from a different generation, a different faith community, and a different continent. His portraits show how their mystic faith drove them to justice commitments and beyond customary boundaries between people from other traditions, countries, and ways of life.
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SKU (ISBN): 9780800638412
ISBN10: 0800638417
Curtiss DeYoung
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: April 2007
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers – 1517 Media
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