Daniela Augustine

At the Crossroads of Social Transformation

An Eastern-European Theological Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

The present work examines the crossroads of social transformation from the contextual standpoint of the "Second World" a political and socioeconomic term descriptively pointing to the unique location of the Former Eastern-European Block countries in between worlds. The work dialogues with some of the major trends within the contemporary Eastern- European philosophical environment, dichotomized between Neo-Marxism and Neo-Freudianism on the one hand, and Postmodernism on the other. While engaging these theories, the text outlines a theological paradigm for an authentic social transformation that draws its dialectical content and passion from the eschatological vision of Christ and the radical praxis of the socio-political reality of God s Kingdom, as the Christian alternative for human emancipation and liberation. This work is, in a way, a memoir of the ideological search and travails of the generations that embodied the political and economic transition in the Post-Communist European countries. It is a portrait of their journey from the rubble of trivialized utopias to the pursuit of an authentic transforming hope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9783838349497
• ISBN-10: 3838349490
• Artikelnr.: 29017636

Autorenporträt

Daniela Augustine (D.Th., Universidad de Sudáfrica) es profesora titular del Instituto Internacional de Estudios Cristianos. Sus investigaciones y publicaciones tratan los temas de Teología Pública y Transformación Social, Posmodernidad y Globalización.