Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World
- Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
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.
Endorsements (2)
“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.”
“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.”
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