{"product_id":"living-faith-how-faith-inspires-social-justice-9780800638412","title":"Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat impels a Mohandas Gandhi or a Martin Luther King, Jr.?How does religious experience animate a lifetime of dedicationand drive for social justice?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this instructive and inspiring account, Christian ethicist CurtissDeYoung profiles three of the most dynamic and influentialreligious activists of the twentieth century: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Malcolm X, and Aung San Suu Kyi - each from a differentgeneration, a different faith community, and a different continent.His portraits show how their mystic faith drove them to justicecommitments and beyond customary boundaries between peoplefrom other traditions, countries, and ways of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving Faith\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a set of inspiring portraits. It alsopowerfully analyzes how these figures - along with such otherluminaries as Rigoberta Mench, Nelson Mandela, WinonaLaDuke, Fannie Lou Hamer, Elie Wiesel, Thich Nhat Hanh, andthe Dalai Lama - shared a fiery core experience and commoncharacteristics that empowered their lives and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeYoung, Curtiss Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCurtiss Paul DeYoung \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Chief Executive Officer of the Minnesota Council of Churches. He has also served as the Executive Director of Community Renewal Society in Chicago, and as Professor of Reconciliation Studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eLiving Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice\u003c\/em\u003e, and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe People's Bible\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872810045714,"sku":"9780800638412","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_adfa7fa8-c692-4da2-bd04-30f90b293a5c.jpg?v=1737911379","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/living-faith-how-faith-inspires-social-justice-9780800638412","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}