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Ain't You Got A Right To The Tree of Life?: The Heirs' Property Dilemma on Johns Island, South Carolina - Couverture souple

Dease, Robin

 
9783659425240: Ain't You Got A Right To The Tree of Life?: The Heirs' Property Dilemma on Johns Island, South Carolina
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659425249 ISBN 13 : 9783659425240
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Heirs’ property land possession is as old as the Biblical tradition. However, African Americans are losing heirs’ property on Johns Island, South Carolina at an alarming rate. This land loss has serious economical, ethical, and theological implications. Persistent exile of African Americans from the only homeland they have known has had devastating effects upon the history, culture, familial ties and legacies of Sea Islanders extending several generations. The plethora of legal constraints, coastal development, and negative influences of wealth and social power inundating the coastal region, begs for a theological praxis that challenges the church and the affluent to face the crisis of the human spirit and make connections between the witness of the Bible on collective land ownership as a form of stewardship. Being faithful stewards of land, testifies to the fact; uncurbed land management, exploitation, self-enhancement and self-aggrandizement cannot succeed. When land is treated, not as a commodity, but as an arena for human interaction that respects both neighbor and land, the Messiah’s kingdom can come.

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Heirs’ property land possession is as old as the Biblical tradition. However, African Americans are losing heirs’ property on Johns Island, South Carolina at an alarming rate. This land loss has serious economical, ethical, and theological implications. Persistent exile of African Americans from the only homeland they have known has had devastating effects upon the history, culture, familial ties and legacies of Sea Islanders extending several generations. The plethora of legal constraints, coastal development, and negative influences of wealth and social power inundating the coastal region, begs for a theological praxis that challenges the church and the affluent to face the crisis of the human spirit and make connections between the witness of the Bible on collective land ownership as a form of stewardship. Being faithful stewards of land, testifies to the fact; uncurbed land management, exploitation, self-enhancement and self-aggrandizement cannot succeed. When land is treated, not as a commodity, but as an arena for human interaction that respects both neighbor and land, the Messiah’s kingdom can come.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659425249
ISBN 13 
9783659425240
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
112
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