Inner Light: The Holy Spirit and Social Justice
About this ebook
Inner Light offers a historical and theological introduction to the Holy Spirit from a liberation theology and Quaker perspective. Kim and Angell explore how the Holy Spirit provides life and empowerment for those who are suffering and disenfranchised today. The four social areas of concern--economics, gender and sexuality, environment, and peacemaking--intersect and illustrate how injustice in one area affects injustice in other areas. These major injustices that permeate our culture and society need to be examined and addressed if a just society is to be achieved. Inner Light will illustrate how it is the work of the Holy Spirit to tackle issues of economics, gender and sexuality, ecology and the environment, and peace and disarmament.
Through the movement of the Holy Spirit, it is possible to address these social concerns of our time and build a kin-dom of God that is lifegiving to humanity and all of God's creation. The Spirit helps us overcome economic injustice, gender injustice, climate injustice, and war-making. Inner Light recognizes the need for people of faith to call upon the Spirit to come into our lives to help us work for justice.
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About the author
Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim is a professor of theology at Earlham School of Religion and author or editor of numerous books,?most recently Spirit Life; Invisible; and Intersectional Theology. She has served on the American Academy of Religion's board of directors, is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and is the host of the Madang podcast from The Christian Century. Kim writes for Good Faith Media, Baptist News Global, Sojourners, and Faith and Leadership and has published in TIME, The Huffington Post, The Christian Century, US Catholic Magazine, and The Nation.
Dr. Stephen W. Angell is a professor of Quaker Studies at Earlham School of Religion and author or editor of numerous books in Quaker Studies and African American Religious Studies, most recently Global Quakerism, 1938-2018, and The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830-1937. He is also an editor of The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies and The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism. His co-edited book, Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, has just been reissued in an audio books edition. He is currently co-chair of the Quaker Studies Unit, and previously co-chair of the African American Religion Unit, both parts of the American Academy of Religion.
