
Becoming Just
Poems That Explore Commitment to Justice for All
S. T. Kimbrough(Author)
Resource Publications (CA) (Publisher)
Published on 31. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
154 pages
978-1-6667-5033-1 (ISBN)
Description
The poems in this collection ask--How can we become just people? What is human justice? Is there a justice that is equal and/or appropriate for all human beings? How can an individual in action, speech, and behavior be just? How does one think of oneself as just in interaction with others? These poems also address prevalent injustices to children and of society's frequent denial of its responsibility to them, the privileged and the underprivileged. Further, how do we wish to live in a society--isolated, completely independent, self-centered? Living in a society implies association with others. How do we wish to relate to others? The poems query: how will the governments under which we live initiate and execute just rule and governance for all citizens? The book concludes with a lyrical case study of apartheid, especially in Israel that claims to be a democracy. Some of the poems acknowledge that the US's democracy has failed in many ways and has an ongoing need of recovering the principles of justice and equality. Americans know well the meaning of ethnic cleansing in their own land. The poems here make no claim at successful resolutions to the issues raised. They do point to the ongoing need of repentance for wrongs done, and for steering a steady course to guarantee the rights of freedom and justice for all people.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
203 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6667-5033-1 (9781666750331)
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08/2022
Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Persons
S T Kimbrough, Jr. holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently a research fellow of the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition at Duke Divinity School. He has taught on leading theological faculties in the US and Europe. He has published numerous books with Wipf and Stock including The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley; Partakers of the Life Divine, which addresses Charles Wesley's thought and that of Eastern Orthodoxy; and many books of poems, e.g., Ancient Wisdom in Modern Verse.