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The Power of Unearned Suffering

The Roots and Implications of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Theodicy

By: Mika Edmondson

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The Power of Unearned Suffering

The Roots and Implications of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Theodicy

By: Mika Edmondson

This book explores the roots and relevance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s approach to black suffering. King’s conviction that “unearned suffering is redemptive” reflects a nearly 250-year-old tradition in the black church going back to the earliest Negro spirituals. From the bellies of slave ships, the foot of the lynching tree, and the back of segregated buses, black Christians have always maintained the hope that God could “make a way out of no way” and somehow bring good from the evils inflicted on them. As a product of the black church tradition, King inherited this widespread belief, developed it using Protestant liberal concepts, and deployed it throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s as a central pillar of the whole non-violent movement. Recently, critics have maintained that King’s doctrine of redemptive suffering creates a martyr mentality which makes victims passive in the face of their suffering; this book argues against that critique. King’s concept offers real answers to important challenges, and it offers practical hope and guidance for how beleaguered black citizens can faithfully engage their suffering today.

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Lexington Books

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1498537332

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9781498537339

The Oil Road: Travels from the Caspian to the City

By: James Marriott,Mika Minio-Paluello

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The Oil Road: Travels from the Caspian to the City

By: James Marriott,Mika Minio-Paluello

A journey along a controversial Central Asian pipeline becomes a profound exploration of the oil economy. In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello track the concealed routes along which flows the lifeblood of our economy. The stupendous resource of Azerbaijani crude has long inspired dreams of a world remade. From the revolutionary Futurism of the capital city, Baku, in the 1920s to the unblinking Capitalism of modern London, the drive to control the region’s oil reserves – and hence people and events – has shattered environments and shaped societies. In The Oil Road, the human scale of village life in the Caucasus Mountains and the plains of Anatolia is suddenly, and sometimes fatally, confronted by the almost ungraspable scale of the oil corporation BP. Pipelines and tanker routes tie the fraying social democracies of Italy, Austria and Germany to the repressive regimes of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. A web of financial and political institutions in London stitches together the lives of metropolis and village. Building on a decade of study with Platform, Marriott and Minio-Paluello guide us through a previously obscured landscape of energy production and consumption, resistance and profit that has marked Europe for over a century. They blend the empathy of committed travel writing with the precision of investigative journalism in a timely book of compelling urgency. The human race travels the Oil Road, and this book helps us to realize where we are heading and why it is time to change direction.

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Verso Books

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1844676463

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9781844676460

The Oil Road

Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of London

By: James Marriott,Mika Minio-Paluello

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The Oil Road

Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of London

By: James Marriott,Mika Minio-Paluello

From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel writing and investigative journalism, it charts a history of violent confrontation between geopolitics, profit and humanity. From the revolutionary futurism of 1920s Baku to the unblinking capitalism of modern London, this book reveals the relentless drive to control fossil fuels. Harrowing, powerful and insightful, The Oil Road maps the true cost of oil.

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1781681287

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The Power of Unearned Suffering

The Roots and Implications of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Theodicy

By: Mika Edmondson

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The Roots and Implications of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Theodicy

By: Mika Edmondson

This book represents the first systematic study of King's doctrine of redemptive suffering, a central tenet of his theology. It explores the roots and contemporary relevance of King's redemptive suffering theodicy and answers his recent black humanist and womanist critics.

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Lexington Books

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1498537340

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9781498537346

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The Power of Unearned Suffering

The Power of Unearned Suffering

The Oil Road: Travels from the Caspian to the City

The Oil Road: Travels from the Caspian to the City

The Oil Road

The Oil Road

The Power of Unearned Suffering

The Power of Unearned Suffering

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