Change Agent Church in Black Lives Matter Times: Urgency for Action (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978701762)

Volatile social dissonance in America's urban landscape is the backdrop as Valerie A. Miles-Tribble examines tensions in ecclesiology and public theology, focusing on theoethical dilemmas that complicate churches' public justice witness as prophetic change agents. She attributes churches' reticence to confront unjust disparities to conflicting views, for example, of Black Lives Matter protests as "mere politics," and disparities in leader and congregant preparation for public justice roles. As a practical theologian with experience in organizational leadership, Miles-Tribble applies adaptive change theory, public justice theory, and a womanist communitarian perspective, engaging Emilie Townes's construct of cultural evil as she presents a model of social reform activism re-envisioned as public discipleship. She contends that urban churches are urgently needed to embrace active prophetic roles and thus increase public justice witness. "Black Lives Matter times" compel churches to connect faith with public roles as spiritual catalysts of change.

Author: Valerie A. Miles-Tribble
ISBN-10: 1978701764
ISBN-13: 9781978701762
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Language: English
Published: 12/21/2021
Pages: 492
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.99d