Contents
Cynicism and Hope: Reclaiming Discipleship in a Postdemocratic Society, edited by Meg E. Cox (Eugene, Ore.: Cascade, 2009)
Preface
Introduction, by Meg E. Cox
1. Cynicism, Hope, Discipleship, and Democracy: An Invitation, by Tim Nafziger
2. Cynicism and Hope: Address to Participants in the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq, March 2007, by Peter Dula
3. Three Cheers for Cynicism, by Ric Hudgens
4. We Wait for Hope, by Nancy Elizabeth Bedford
5. The Philosopher, King: The Nature of Hope and Its Place in Nonviolent Resistance, by Gregory A. Clark
6. Cynicism as Therapy: Seeing the Log in Our Own Eye, by Dale Suderman
7. A Sign of Hope: Conversations with Iranian Religious Leaders, by Thomas Finger
8. Sink into Cynicism or Soar into Hope? Demonstrating Hope and Patience at Koinonia Farm, by Bren Dubay
9. Democracy and Mammon in Christian Perspective: Foundations of a Nonreactive Politics
10. Personal and Communal Hope in Flannery O’Connor and J. R. R. Tolkien, by Ralph C. Wood
11. A Theologian in Baghdad, by Peter Dula
12. Closing Prayer, by Charles (Casey) Andrews
13. Ingredients, by Ruth Goring
Bibliography
Contributors