Description
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In this arresting anthology, Elisabeth Dodds has collected a broad cross section of quotations, poems, and writings from men and women who live, think, and work, for the most part, outside the context of the Christian church. These voices of protest and hope belong to people who are deeply sensitive to the struggles, failures, inhumanities and hopes of man in the twentieth century. Having lived, thought, and written largely as non-churchmen, and sometimes as irreligious persons, theirs is a language that is, at times, strange and unfamiliar to us. For we often safely ignore what we do not want to hear . . . cries of despair, voices of lost faith, bitter charges of unfaithfulness. Until we open our eyes and ears to these voices, we cannot expect to know the world in which we live or the people who are a part of it. We cannot fulfill our mission as Christians until we know and understand the people and the need. The voices that the reader will meet here are the voices of such persons as W. H. Auden, Thomas Griffiths, William Faulkner, Christopher Fry, Marya Mannes, C. P. Snow, Walter Kerr, T. S. Eliot, Albert Einstein, Robert J. Oppenheimer,James Baldwin, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Steinbeck, Mark Van Doren, Lorraine Hansberry, and many others. Running throughout Voices of Protest and Hope is the church’s prayer of confession—a portion of it heading each of the chapters which treat such subjects as: the pleasure principle, science, race, poverty, privatism, anxiety and loneliness, uninvolvement, and criticism of the church. Yet, for all the inhumanity and self-loss which dehumanizes man in our time, there is hope— hope for breakthroughs in racial reconciliation, hope that science will be used for peace and health, hope that through the agonies of protest the self and its relation to God may be found once again.
“The purpose of Voices of Protest and Hope is to help the church speak to the real needs of the noisy, puzzling, tragic, marvelous actual world. By the ‘church’ we mean ordinary people, you and me, members of local parishes whose faith compels us to live out the gospel in every action every day. … We can only speak effectively to the world after we have listened sensitively.”
Voices of Protest and Hope is designed to be used in the adult program for the theme, “Mission: the Christian’s Calling.” A study guide is available entitled Study-Action Manual for “Mission: The Christian’s Calling,” by Edward T. Adkins.
Publishing Info
Voices of Protest and Hope was compiled by Elisabeth D. Dodds. From Friendship Press with 1965 copyright. This paperback book measures about 8″ x 6″ and has 176 pages, ending with an Index.
Condition
See photo above. In very good condition for age with lighter handling/storage. The spine has some reading creases but none broke the binding. Number inside front cover but no names or text markings found. From clean, smoke-free Christian home.
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