{"product_id":"spiritual-defiance-robin-meyers-9780300219814","title":"Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA leading voice of progressive Christianity makes a powerful case for faith as a radical way of being in the world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the church as a community of believers and calls readers back to the church's roots as a community of resistance. Shifting the conversation about church renewal away from theological purity and marketing strategies that embrace cultural norms, and toward \"embodied noncompliance\" with the dominant culture, Meyers urges a return to the revolutionary spirit that marked Jesus's ministry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFraming his discussion around three poems by twentieth-century Polish poet Anna Kamienska, Meyers casts the nature of faith as a force that stands against anything and everything that engenders death and indignity. He calls for active--sometimes even subversive--defiance of the ego's temptations, of what he terms \"the heresy of orthodoxy itself,\" and of an uncritical acceptance of militarism and capitalism. Each chapter is a poignant and urgent invitation to recover the Jesus Movement as a Beloved Community of Resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robin Meyers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300219814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300219814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Robin Meyers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372292985087,"sku":"9780300219814","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5eaa9141-18c5-4a52-bd79-e67313680b01.jpg?v=1732725546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spiritual-defiance-robin-meyers-9780300219814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}