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The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for Life

An Invitation to Personal Ecclesial and Social Transformation

By Ross Kinsler, Gloria Kinsler

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Chapter	Page
Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction	xv
The Jubilee Challenge--Fullness of Life for All God's People	1
Today's World	1
The Champagne Glass Analogy	1
Globalization of the "Free Market"	3
Spiritual Alienation, Insolidarity, and Religious Proliferation	5
Biblical Faith	6
The Exodus and the Logic of Liberation	6
The Jubilee Vision--The Seventh Day, the Seventh Year, the Fiftieth Year	9
Jesus and the Jubilee	17
Responsible Discipleship	19
Personal Transformation	19
Ecclesial Transformation	20
Social Transformation	22
The Promised Land--An Alternative Social Possibility	24
Today's World	25
A Mayan Cosmogony	26
The Sandinista Experience	27
The Earth Charter	29
Biblical Faith	30
The Land as Gift, Temptation, Responsibility, and Threat	31
The Tribes of Yahweh	33
Sabbath Rest	36
Sabbath Economics	38
Responsible Discipleship	39
Simple Lifestyle--The Logic of Enough	39
Covenanting for Life	40
Ecofeminism	42
Abuse of Land, Labor, and Life	44
Today's World	44
Economic and Ecological Suicide	44
Bretton Woods--Foundations of Our World Economy	46
The Commodification of Land, Labor, and Life	48
Biblical Faith	50
The Monarchy and the Logic of Centralization	50
Prophetic Denunciation of Religion without Justice	53
Destruction and Exile, Judgment and Rebirth of Hope	54
Responsible Discipleship	57
A Call for Repentance	57
On the Way: From Kairos to Jubilee	58
The Clamor for Land	60
Sabbath Economics, Jubilee Spirituality, and Liberty for All	64
Today's World	64
Emerging Alternatives	65
Toward a Vision of an Economy of Life	66
Overcoming the Great Divorce	68
Biblical Faith	69
Exile and Return--The Renewed Search for an Alternative Social Possibility	70
The Deuteronomic and Priestly Traditions--The Sabbath Year and the Jubilee Year	72
The Isaiah Traditions	80
Royal Decrees	83
Responsible Discipleship	84
The Stewardship of Our Lives	85
The Stewardship of God's Household	85
The Stewardship of Creation	86
Jesus' Proclamation of God's Reign as Jubilee	88
Today's World	89
Socioeconomic Structures and Prejudices That Marginalize and Exclude	89
Political-Ideological Structures and Prejudices That Marginalize and Exclude	90
Religious-Spiritual Structures and Prejudices That Marginalize and Exclude	91
Biblical Faith	92
Sabbath-Jubilee Texts in Mark	92
Sabbath-Jubilee Texts in Matthew	98
Sabbath-Jubilee Texts in Luke	103
Responsible Discipleship	107
Encountering the Holy among the Most Vulnerable	108
Finding God's Word through Openness to Others	109
Discovering Our Own Humanity by Affirming the Full Humanity of Others	111
Jesus and the Domination System	112
Today's World	112
500 Years of Conquest	112
500 Years of Economic Oppression, Patriarchy, and Racism	114
500 Years of Entitlement as Addiction	116
Biblical Faith	118
Subversive Teaching and Action	119
Creating Alternative Community	123
Confronting Structural Sin	125
Responsible Discipleship	127
Possibilities for Personal Recovery	128
Possibilities for Ecclesial Renewal	129
Possibilities for Social Transformation	131
Jubilee Practices in the Early Church	134
Today's World	134
The Free Market Economy--Is It Humane?	134
Free Market Ideology--Does It Have a Conscience?	136
Privatistic Spirituality--Is It Adequate?	139
Biblical Faith	140
Pentecost as Jubilee	141
The Lord's Supper	143
The Collection for the Poor in Jerusalem	146
Responsible Discipleship	149
Borders--Walls or Bridges?	149
Churches--Privileged Ghettos or Servant Communities?	150
Globalization--Slavery or Liberation?	152
Jubilee--Celebrating Life Together	154
Recovering Times and Spaces to Be Human--The Promised Land	155
Respecting and Renewing Creation--New Heavens and a New Earth	156
Overcoming Poverty and Wealth--Enough Is Enough for All	158
Liberation from Debts, Slavery, Disease, and Sin	159
Discovering Others, Finding Ourselves	160
Going Home--Identity, Security, Peace	161
Working for Justice, Celebrating Life Together	162
References and Further Reading	164
Index	167