Exploring the Interconnection of Theology and Life
The Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia is a research community, whose mission is to study the social consequences of theological ideas for the sake of a more just and compassionate world.
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A Call For Quiet
By Charles Marsh
I shared this short essay with my students recently. It’s a piece I wrote for the Harvard Divinity Bulletin in Spring 2005. Several students in the class thought it speaks directly to the current situation, so we’re sharing it here in Theology Now! The idea of holy silence and political resistance came to me while reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, in the section on “silence before, under, and coming out of the Word”, when Bonhoeffer writes of a silence that brings “purification, clarification, and concentration upon the essential thing”; which I would develop in my 2007 book, Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity (Oxford University Press).
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People Get Ready
Twelve Christian Misfits, Malcontents, and Dreamers. A collection of succinct and evocative biographies of twelve modern apostles who unsettle what we think we know about religion’s role in American reform movements.
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God’s Long Summer – New Princeton Classic
Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when the lives of activists on all sides of the civil rights issue converged and their images of God clashed.