Nevertheless, We Persist

Nevertheless, We Persist elaborates an innovative feminist theological approach to the public church and to the praxis of public theology as ekklesial work. Carbine constructs and then applies this approach to identify and interpret theological claims and practices of public engagement that have been exemplified by Christian social justice leaders and movements. She draws on major figures in feminist and womanist theologies to examine the rich diversity of historical and contemporary faith-based movements such as the Catholic Worker, the Civil Rights Movement, United Farm Workers, and The Plowshares Movement. Each chapter ends with a contemporary social movement that continues and radicalizes a part of an earlier movement with attention to multi-faith approaches that address increasing fractures of US public life in our time.