“ Embracing Hopelessness is a powerful and bracing book. In it, Miguel A. De La Torre develops the theological alternative to Moltmann’s Theology of Hope, taking up many of the most difficult political issues of our world today.
10/1/2017 · Miguel A. de la Torre published Embracing Hopelessness (Fortress Press, 2017) as the third book in an organic trilogy of works, the first two of which are Latina/O Social Ethics: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Moral Thinking (2010) and The Politics of Jesús: A Hispanic Political Theology (2015).
Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He has published over thirty-one books, including Social Justice from a Latino/a Perspective (2013), The Quest for the Historical Satan (Fortress Press, 2011), Liberating Jonah: Forming an Ethics of Reconciliation (2007), and Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins (2004).
On Jan. 22, 2020, Miguel De La Torre , PhD, professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, presented on the concept of hope as a uniquely Eurocentric phenomenon, and how and why he believes that hopelessness , as a state of mind, is actually a powerful method to inspire social-justice work. De La Torre shared stories and examples, from Cuernavaca, Mexico to …
Christian ethicist Miguel De La Torre would agree with Jensen’s assertion that “when hope dies, action begins.” In his new book Embracing Hopelessness , De La Torre wrestles with the ethical upshot of the Christian theology of hope and calls for readers to stand in solidarity with the hopeless . Embracing Hopelessness is, 3/25/2019 · Struggle and Hopelessness : Responding To Oppression and Embracing Hopelessness – Miguel De La Torre . March 25, 2019 . Justice Suffering For marginalized communities, the struggle for justice can be hopeless . To offer illusionary hope as the means of growing stronger through the struggle all too often maintains oppressive structures. The …
5/23/2020 · This section argues that hope is a middle-class privilege designed to domesticate marginalised communities. If the disenfranchised seek liberation, then they…
10/2/2018 · From the Center for Prophetic Imagination’s 2018 conference on September 21-22, 2018.
5/8/2018 · Embracing Hopelessness is an important book especially for those who identify as progressive, and who found the hopeful rhetoric of the Obama administration compelling and are now coming to grips with the apparent failure of that hope (or at least a major setback for it). De La Torre offers a sober assessment of the legacy of hope in American politics and argues that Trump is as.
3/19/2018 · Miguel de la Torre published Embracing Hopelessness (Fortress Press, 2017) as the third book in an organic trilogy of works, the first two of which are Latina/o Social Ethics: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Moral Thinking (2010) and The Politics of Jesús (2015). In a reversal of our typical (in other words, “Eurocentric”) mode of thinking, and in usual liberative theology fashion, de la Torre …
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