Hope for the Oppressor

Discovering Freedom through Transformative Community

By: Patrick Oden, Jürgen Moltmann (Foreword by)

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The liberating work of God calls the oppressed out of oppression and the oppressor out of oppressing. The challenge in seeking a thorough liberation of oppressors is to help them understand their need for freedom and how to seek this freedom in their own contexts. Patrick Oden provides a holistic biblical, historical, and theological analysis that diagnoses the underlying motivations and inclinations that lead to oppression. Part one addresses the context of oppression, in which most participants in oppression do not actively seek to harm others but are caught up in systems that tend toward the diminishment of others. Part two examines the biblical and early Christian response to oppression, discovering a thread that avoids condemning participation in society generally while also cautioning the people of God about being co-opted by society. Part three discusses how oppressors can withdraw from oppression, through a constructive analysis of four contemporary theologians—Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jurgen Moltmann, Sarah Coakley, and Jean Vanier—each of whom contributes to a widening vision of liberated and liberating life in which the once-oppressed and former oppressor can find peace together in community.

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Following in the footsteps of Jesus, Christians seek to liberate the oppressed. The work of liberation includes the transformation of both the oppressed and oppressors. Patrick Oden’s Hope for the Oppressor is a landmark book on liberating oppressors that entails both ending harmful practices and embodying a prophetic politics of hope.