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Michael J. Gilmour Gilmour
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1517 Media
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September 2024
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Michael J. Gilmour Gilmour
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Publisher
1517 Media
Published
September 2024
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The Bible and theology are contested spaces, battlegrounds where participants guard entrenched beliefs against perceived threats. But literature, observes novelist Salman Rushdie, opens the universe. It expands what we perceive and understand, and ultimately what we are. Writers make our world feel larger and more inclusive. When other forces push in the direction of narrowness, bigotry, tribalism, cultism, and war, fiction encourages understanding, sympathy, and identification with others. Reading the Margins invites readers to immerse themselves in imaginary worlds, and to pursue visions of justice and compassion. Whether stories about poverty, empire, war, or the environment, the writers considered raise moral questions and often, in the process--even unwittingly--deepen our understanding of biblical calls for kindness and mercy.
Reading the Margins offers a kind of commentary on biblical ethics. Using Matthew's Beatitudes and sheep and goats parable as an organizing principle, Gilmour argues there is much to learn about Jesus's "peacemakers" and call to feed the hungry from aspirational fiction and poetry.
Author
Michael J. Gilmour Gilmour
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
1517 Media
Published
September 2024
Weight
318g
Dimensions
153 x 229 mm
ISBN
9781506469355
ISBN-10
1506469353
Eden Code
6721998
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Author/Creator: Michael J. Gilmour Gilmour
ISBN: 9781506469355
Publisher: 1517 Media
Release Date: September 2024
Weight: 318g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 mm
Eden Code: 6721998