
Contexts for Amos
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- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 RELATING THE TEXT AND THE WORLD: INTRODUCTION AND FRAMEWORK
- Chapter 2 THE WORLD BEHIND THE TEXT: SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES AND THE OLD TESTAMENT
- 1. Fundamental Categories
- a. The Prophet as a Model for Action
- b. The Object of Prophetic Denunciation
- 2. Problems and Limitations in Method
- a. Basic Criteria
- b. Constructing a Social Theory
- 3. Conclusion and Challenge
- Chapter 3 A WORLD WITHIN THE WORLD: RELIGION AND MORALITY IN CONTEXT
- 1. Religion and Moral Life in Context
- a. Geertz: Interpretive Anthropology and the Nature of Culture
- b. Berger: Sociology of Knowledge and Sociological Methodology
- c. Maclntyre, Hauerwas and Narrative Ethics
- d. Conclusion
- 2. Understanding Latin America
- a. Religion and Morality in Latin America
- b. Doing Theology in the Latin American Context
- c. Conclusion
- 3. Israelite Morality and Old Testament Text
- a. Structural Anthropology and the Primitive Mentality
- b. Moral Life in Ancient Israel and the Problem of the Text
- c. Conclusion
- 4. Conclusion
- Excursus
- Chapter 4 THE TEXT AND THE WORLD: THE MORAL AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE AND THE CALL FOR A RESPONSIBLE POETICS
- 1. Textual Power: The Moral Authority of Scripture
- 2. Textual Method: Poetics and the Responsible Reader
- a. The Choice of Poetics
- b. The Text and History
- c. The Responsible Reader
- 3. Conclusion
- Chapter 5 THE WORLD WITHIN THE TEXT: POETICS AND THE SOCIAL IMAGINATION IN AMOS
- 1. A Poetic Reading of Amos 3-6
- a. Two Tales of One City (3.1-4.3)
- b. Love Can Be Blind (4.4-13)
- c. What Is in a Name? (5.1-17)
- d. The Delusion of Religion (5.18-27)
- e. The Delusion of Power (6.1-14)
- 2. Religion and the Social Construction of Reality in Amos
- Chapter 6 FROM THE TEXT TO THE WORLD: AMOS IN THE MODERN CONTEXT
- 1. Participation in the Textual World
- a. The Text as an Identity Document
- b. Archetypes and Textual Ambiguity
- c. Direct Address and the Modern Reader
- 2. Popular Religion and the Revolutionary Proyecto Histórico
- a. Religion and a Particular Proyecto: The Case of Sandinista Nicaragua
- b. The Proposal of a New Liturgy
- c. The Nature of God and Idolatry
- 3. A Final Word
- Appendix 1 TRADITION AND HISTORY IN AMOS
- Appendix 2 TEXTUAL METHOD IN LATIN AMERICAN LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Bibliography
- Index of Biblical References
- Index of Authors
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