Unfettered Hope by Marva J. Dawn

Author:Marva J. Dawn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781611644449
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corporation

1. Jacques Ellul, The Ethics of Freedom, trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1976), 233 and 235. See also chapters 3 and 4, “Political Realism (Problems of Civilization III)” (from 1947) and “On Christian Pessimism” (from 1954), in Dawn, Sources and Trajectories.

2. Clausen, Faded Mosaic, 7. Page references to this book in the following paragraphs will be given parenthetically in the text.

3. See Marva J. Dawn, Reaching Out without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1995) and A Royal “Waste” of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1999).

4. Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).

5. Robert Wuthnow, After Heaven: Spirituality in America since the 1950s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 142-167. Page references to this book in the following paragraphs will be given parenthetically in the text.

6. I purposefully capitalize the word Joy because I do not mean a simple exuberance, happiness, or excitement caused by circumstances. I use the word to signify that deep, abiding confidence, gratitude, and trust that are ours when our lives are transformed by the truths of our meta-narrative (sketched in chapter 5), especially the Resurrection.

7. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy: The Classic Account of a Remarkable Christian Experience (Wheaton, III: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1994; first published in 1908), 147.

8. From the flurry of books commenting on September 11, 2001,1 highly recommend Rowan Williams’s Writing in the Dust: After September 11 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2002). Williams, now Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, was trapped at Trinity Church, Wall Street—only two blocks from the World Trade Center—by the dust and debris after the attacks. His Christian reflections on the grief and shock are comforting; his wisdom for the days ahead is constructively compassionate for the sake of the whole world.

9. Perhaps the best book I’ve ever found critiquing many nuances of this fear for churches’ own identity is Selling Out the Church: The Dangers of Church Marketing, by Philip D. Kenneson and James L. Street (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997).

10. See Marva J. Dawn, Joy in Our Weakness: A Gift of Hope from the Book of Revelation, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002).

11. John Cobb Jr., “Will Churches Learn to Think Again in the Twenty-First Century?” presentation for the Lutheran Professors Breakfast at the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting in Denver on November 19, 2001.

12. Regular reading of National Geographic makes ecological disaster quite clear. See also “It’s Official: Humans Are Behind Most of Global Warming,” Science, January 26, 2001, 566, which reports that hundreds of environmental scientists involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change commissioned by the United Nations agree on the subject of that title. For documentation that human activities have altered the climate and that the results will be disastrous if this isn’t changed, see Richard B.

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