Description: Diagnoses current problems within the Christian church in America and offers a possible solution in the practice of synodality, the ancient method of deep listening that re-centers those pushed to the margins
Brief description: David Daultis assistant professor of Catholic studies at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN.
Review Quotes:
"Like Ezekiel redivivus, David Dault cries out in this book, 'Can these (institutional, ecclesiastical, theological, political) bones live?' Dault is in search of a powerful, living church-not the bare life of the carceral church, but the abundant life of the abolitionist church. While he writes from and for a Roman Catholic community, he shows how the idea and operation of the magisterium pervades Christianity as such, requiring a collective rethinking of Christian faith and practice. This is a work of liberation theology for the present crisis." --David W. Congdon, University of Kansas, US, author of Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture
"The best theology is prophetic. It doesn't just speak truth to power, but rather enacts truth as a lived challenge to the complacency of the powerful. This book is prophetic. If it doesn't wake you up and shake you into action, then I just don't think you were paying attention." --J. Aaron Simmons, author of Camping with Kierkegaard