Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World
Ebook
Is the beloved community local, national, global, or universal? What kind of love is required for the beloved community? Is such a community only an ideal, or can it be actualized in the here and now? Tracing the phrase beloved community from Josiah Royce through Martin Luther King Jr. to a variety of contemporary usages, Goodson, Kuehnert, and Stone debate answers to the above questions. The authors agree about the importance of beloved community but disagree on the details. These differences come out through arguments over the local vs. the universal, the type of love the beloved community calls for, and what it means to conceptualize community. Ultimately, they argue, the purpose of beloved community involves responding to the cries of the wounded and those who suffer in the wounded world.
“Between the voices and concerns of two prophetic pragmatists
and a retired Lutheran minister, the beloved community comes to
life in these pages. The theme is presented and developed in
reflective conversation that digs deeply into a rich variety of
traditions and concerns. Attentive readers will face a kind of
altar call to begin the hard work of joining and serving the
community they seek.”
—Roger Ward, Georgetown College
“This text provides a kaleidoscope on Josiah Royce’s felicitous
concept of ‘the beloved community,’ which was most powerfully
elaborated in the life, work, and rhetoric of Martin Luther King
Jr. . . . Bridging the academy and the pulpit, the
contributors harmonize around the cries of the wounded within a
wounded world. Its human, all-too-human deficiencies
notwithstanding, Goodson, Stone, and Kuehnert focus on what a
beloved community demands of us who have the ears to hear.”
—William David Hart, Macalester College
- Title: Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World
- Authors: Jacob L. Goodson, Brad Elliott Stone, Philip Rudolph Kuehnert
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666710267, 9781666710250, 9781666710243, 1666710261, 1666710253, 1666710245
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666710267
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-22T05:52:32Z
Jacob L. Goodson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.
Brad Elliott Stone is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean in
the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount
University in Los Angeles, California.
Philip Rudolph Kuehnert is a retired Lutheran Pastor living on the
sunrise side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He combined forty years
of pastoral ministry with twenty-five years as a pastoral
psychotherapist in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Fairbanks (Alaska)
before retiring to Virginia.