The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781570759406)

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" today's churches into social and political irrelevance; how the economic principles and policies espoused by the religious right betray the most basic principles of the same biblical tradition they claim to hold dear; the domestication of Martin Luther King's message to foster a political complacency that dishonors King's sacrifices. He ends with a stinging rebuke of the religious right's idolatrous "patriotism" in a radical manifesto for those who would practice "the politics of Jesus" in the public sphere.

Author: Obery M. Jr. Hendricks
ISBN-10: 1570759405
ISBN-13: 9781570759406
Publisher: Orbis Books
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2011
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/10/2011 pg. 51
Choice 06/01/2012