Intentional Community and Displaced People

Drago, Jennifer

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“…70 When Jennifer Drago sought advice from her pastor as to how best she can minister to a newly arrived family of refugees from Myanmar, the pastor's response was, "be their friend." 71 Drago, a member of Jubilee Partners, an intentional Christian community located in northeast Georgia, chronicles the transformation of her understanding of community through being with displaced peoples who arrive at Jubilee Partners from various war-torn and economically compromised countries. The most significant change Drago narrates relates to the shift that comes from a posture of "working for" to that of "being with," that is, the shift from a relationship of transaction to a relationship of mutuality.…”

Section: Moving From Human Competition To Human Solidaritymentioning

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Graced Human Bodies and the Enterprising Subject: Contending Neoliberal Assumptions of the Human Person

Shakespeare

2023

Anglican Theological Review

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The particular vision of human, bodily life that has been adopted and developed in the neoliberal era since the 1970s is turning humans into a new kind of creature. Both our behavioral and conceptual notions of what it means to be human have been re-oriented to a vision of the “enterprising self,” the social and political actor who negotiates the world through competition, self-regulation, and rational choice. The concern of this paper is to demonstrate how this framework is theologically unsound and has a destabilizing effect on what constitutes human nature as a particular embodied existence. Attending to the rationale and theological response to the neoliberal logics, this paper seeks to promote a vision of human life and activity that is ordered and oriented to human flourishing and provide examples of resistance to the person-forming capacity of neoliberal social formations.

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Section: Moving From Human Competition To Human Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Graced Human Bodies and the Enterprising Subject: Contending Neoliberal Assumptions of the Human Person

Shakespeare

2023

Anglican Theological Review

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Intentional Community and Displaced People

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Graced Human Bodies and the Enterprising Subject: Contending Neoliberal Assumptions of the Human Person

Graced Human Bodies and the Enterprising Subject: Contending Neoliberal Assumptions of the Human Person

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