The Meaning of Freedom and the Kingdom of God: A Struggle against the Fetishization of Our Present World
In their respective contexts of Roman empire and global neoliberal capitalism, the Jesus movement and the Zapatistas announce that another world is possible and that this world has irrupted in the struggle for that other possible world. This article argues that the practical and theoretical work of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2021
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Horizons
Year: 2021, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 302-319 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics FD Contextual theology KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Liberation Theology
B Kingdom of God B Gustavo Gutiérrez B fetish B Jon Sobrino B Freedom B Zapatistas |
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| Summary: | In their respective contexts of Roman empire and global neoliberal capitalism, the Jesus movement and the Zapatistas announce that another world is possible and that this world has irrupted in the struggle for that other possible world. This article argues that the practical and theoretical work of the Zapatistas offers to theologians a way to articulate the meaning of the kingdom of God as a world of hope and struggle that is actualized in and informed by struggles to resist fetishization. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizons
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2021.52 |