Healing a Broken World: Globalization and GodCynthia D. Moe-Lobeda While spirituality is still thought to be primarily a personal quest for holiness and religious experience, it might be thought mere narcissism in an era of widespread need. Moe-Lobeda shows how the advent of globalization places a new horizon on the spiritual quest but, at the same time, has caused an enervation of people's sense of moral agency. What can I, one person, do to affect such a massive and systemic shift? Far from being a flight from the world, she argues, the classic Christian contemplative tradition can ignite critical vision and creative resistance to the seemingly inevitable march of globalization. |
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The Dominant Paradigm of Globalization Disables Democracy | 39 |
A Map | 101 |
Cosmic Communio as Subversive Moral Agency | 109 |
Luthers Limitations Our Limitations and Beyond | 130 |
In Sum | 131 |
Invitation | 133 |
A Different and Subversive Story | 136 |
In Sum | 150 |
Methodological Guideposts | 151 |
Implications | 44 |
Ideological Underpinnings NeoLiberalism and Social Amnesia | 46 |
Market Myths | 48 |
Roots of Global Free Market Ideology | 63 |
Disabling Moral Agency | 65 |
Martin Luther Earths Creatures Filled to the Utmost with God | 73 |
A Center of Luthers Ethics | 74 |
Indwelling Christ as Source of Subversive Moral Agency | 82 |
Ideological Dimensions That Undermine Subversive Moral Agency in Luther | 95 |
Subversive Moral Agency Today God Flowing and Pouring into All Things | 100 |
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