{"product_id":"spirit-and-the-obligation-of-social-flesh-a-secular-theology-for-the-global-city-paperback-1","title":"Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for the Global City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharon V. Betcher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere theology turns decidedly secular. In urban medieval Europe, seculars were uncloistered persons who carried their spiritual passion and sense of an obligated life into daily circumambulations of the city. Seculars lived in the city, on behalf of the city, but--contrary to the new profit economy of the time--with a different locus of value: spirit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetcher argues that for seculars today the possibility of a devoted life, the practice of felicity in history, still remains. Spirit now names a necessary \"prosthesis,\" a locus for regenerating the elemental commons of our interdependent flesh and thus for cultivating spacious and fearless empathy, forbearance, and generosity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer theological poetics, though based in Christianity, are frequently in conversation with other religions resident in our postcolonial cities.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSharon V. Betcher \u003c\/strong\u003enow an Independent Scholar, was Professor of Theology at the Vancouver School of Theology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42597560254560,"sku":"9780823253913","price":80.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/VEVLbEJ1RUtDTC9EdzRYR3pXVmg4QT09.webp?v=1771786534","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/spirit-and-the-obligation-of-social-flesh-a-secular-theology-for-the-global-city-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}