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In this book Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism. The most powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he says, is refusing to accept the realities of structural injustice, such as poverty, escalating militarism, genocide, and housing discrimination. Hill’s Prophetic Rage is interdisciplinary,...

the injustice, the abuse, and the evil—passing on generation after generation—blind us.”9 Recognizing the persistent reality of suffering in the world, Raboteau is quick to remind us, lest we fall into the nihilistic abyss, that the compassion reflected in God’s sustaining and abiding love compels us onward toward freedom and liberation. Raboteau’s reflections require us to renew our confrontation with what Walter Wink describes as the social, political, and economic powers and principalities of
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