A Passion for the Possible: A Message to U. S. Churches
A Passion for the Possible presents a vision for the future that challenges assumptions and deepens our understanding of the importance of social change. William Sloane Coffin deals with social issues that continue to face U.S. churches--war, the environment, racism, homophobia, abortion, and sexism. This second edition adds Coffin's powerful sermon preached after September 11, 2001 and a foreward by Martin Marty.\ \ \ Coffin deals with the most controversial social...
Search in google:
First published in 1993, William Sloane Coffin's A Passion for the Possible presents a vision for the future that challenges assumptions and deepens our understanding of the importance of social justice and change. Coffin deals with social issues that continue to face U.S. churches -- abortion, sexism, homophobia, racism, poverty, the environment, and nuclear disarmament. This second edition adds Coffin's powerful sermon preached after September 11, 2001, and a foreword by Martin Marty. Library Journal Not everyone will agree with Coffin's solutions to controversial issues of war, environment, welfare, racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, and careerism. But Coffin, formerly pastor of Riverside Church in New York, confronts these issues clearly, with compassionate understanding of both sides of an issue and with meditative reasoning steeped in both biblical and contemporary cultural understandings. An epilog encourages preachers, in the spirit of Thurgood Marshall, to realize that ``hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it.'' This work is not only for clergy and churchgoers but also for anyone wanting to rethink these issues. Recommended for public and seminary libraries.
Introduction11A Vision of the Future42Beyond War153The Environment264Beyond Charity345Race and Charity456Sexism557Homophobia628Abortion699Career Versus Calling75Epilogue: A Word to the Preachers84
\ Library JournalNot everyone will agree with Coffin's solutions to controversial issues of war, environment, welfare, racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, and careerism. But Coffin, formerly pastor of Riverside Church in New York, confronts these issues clearly, with compassionate understanding of both sides of an issue and with meditative reasoning steeped in both biblical and contemporary cultural understandings. An epilog encourages preachers, in the spirit of Thurgood Marshall, to realize that ``hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it.'' This work is not only for clergy and churchgoers but also for anyone wanting to rethink these issues. Recommended for public and seminary libraries.\ \
