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This book gathers twenty-two scholars and activists, living in interconnected diasporas, to explore the connections between Marc H. Ellis’s Jewish liberation theology and current intellectual and geopolitical developments in Israel/Palestine…
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Beyond the immediate issues of politics and economics lie the larger and deeper realities of history and fidelity. As a Jew I am asking in these essays traditional religious questions…
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This book of photographs, accompanied by poetic insights, shed light on our search for meaning in the contemporary world. The backdrop is exile, that ancient and modern reality that afflicts…
In volume one of this multi-volume series, Marc Ellis explores the
Finding Our Voice is a series of meditations on how to express the deepest sense of who we are in a troubled world. What is the core of our being…
Marc H. Ellis
In this diary Marc Ellis recounts his spiritual journey among the poor in New York City in the early 1970s. What he witnessed at the Catholic Worker continues to increase…
The peril and promise of contemporary Jewish identity.
Faith and struggle, pain and promiseAs a post-Holocaust Jewish thinker, Marc Ellis inhabits the land between homes that we call exile. In this intensely personal work he explores how the…
The most vital questions about Judaismpresent and futureare prefigured, says Marc Ellis in the work of Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas. Ellis encounters…
Presents a startling series of essays challenging the prevailing sensibilities of both Jews and Christians. In the call for accountability and commitment, Ellis asks whether the current boundaries that Jews…
The contents of this book emerge from the Catholic Worker House of Hospitality in New York City and the Saint Thomas Project in New Orleans. Two years of working with…
After the Gulf War and amidst the ongoing peace process, this timely book speaks to the need to address the deeper issues of Israel and Palestine–issues that concerned Jews, Arabs…
A personal, philosophical account of contemporary Jewish identity
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This collection of commentaries, written during the recent Gaza war as it unfolded, represents an attempt of one Jew on behalf of Jews of Conscience everywhere, to come to grips…
Tragically, religion has often been associated with violence, repression, war, and vengeance. In this searing work Marc Ellis asks, is there God beyond violence?Ellis’s personal quest for religious integrity in…
In this book, Marc Ellis wrestles with some of the critical issues of contemporary Jewish and Christian life, in particular the issues of Jewish and Christian religiosity after Auschwitz and…
I Am Who Loves the Prophets is a beautiful and haunting meditation on exile, a central experience in the history of the Jewish people but now experienced by diverse peoples…
Argues that in the persistence of the prophetic, the legacy of the ancient Jewish world spread beyond the boundaries of the Jewish community and took root throughout the world.
In Peter Maurin: Prophet in the Twentieth Century, Marc H. Ellis traces Maurin’s life from his early years–as peasant, brother, and Catholic activist–through his meeting with Dorothy Day. Ellis’ Chronicle…
I have been traveling to Cape Canaveral and taking photographs on the beach since I was a child. So when I returned to the Cape to live a few years…
Turmoil still grips the Middle East and fear now paralyzes post-9/11 America. The comforts and challenges of this book are thus as timely as when first published in 1987. With…
Influenced by the Jewish ethical tradition and the dissonance of Jewish life after the Holocaust, Professor Marc H. Ellis has sought to revive the Jewish ethical tradition in the face…
A controversial argument by a leading Jewish scholar that a secular Israeli state is actually more consonant with progressive Jewish values than a blind support for Israel’s aggressive policies.
Since 1987, with the publication of his groundbreaking book, now classic, Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation, Marc H. Ellis has been touring the world with a prophetic global message…
In 1988, many of the world’s leading theologians gathered at Maryknoll to honor Gustavo Gutierrez, the father of liberation theology. The occasion marked the twentieth anniversary of the Medellin conference…
Ellis applies Said's idea of late-style to the Jewish prophetic - what Ellis names the Late-Style Jewish Prophetic - to mean the reappearance and coming home of the Jewish prophetic…
Marc H. Ellis,Julia Neuberger
Assesses what it means to be Jewish. Challenges the notion that the only way in which the Holocaust can be countered is through the misappropriation of power and land by…
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This book develops an understanding of prayer from a liberation-theological perspective.Praying withoffers a distinctive way of praying that can help orient our prayers around thewherewe pray…
This book develops an understanding of prayer from a liberation-theological perspective. Praying with offers a distinctive way of praying that can help orient our prayers around the where we pray…
This book interrogates the theological statement of God loving diversity and justice from the multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the contributors. They engage selectively the various sources of…
This book interrogates the theological statement of God loving diversity and justice from the varied identities of the contributors. They engage the sources of their diverse traditions, resulting in a…
The political Left has had a turbulent relationship with religion, from outright hostility to attempts to meld religious faith with progressivism. Confronted with contemporary social ills, the progressive Left continues…
Theologies on the Move examines how the experiences of migration and pilgrimage that are created as a result of the pressures of neoliberal capitalism shape theological and religious traditions. Based…
