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"The bright midday sun glinted off the calm waters of the Inland Sea and silhouetted the long, sinuous form of a huge mosasaur lying motionless amid the floating tangle of yellow-green seaweed. Twenty years old and more than thirty feet in length, the adult mosasaur was almost full-grown and was much larger than any of the fish or sharks that lived in the shallow seaway. A swift and powerful swimmer over short distances, the mosasaur used surprise and the thrust of his muscular tail to outrun his prey with a short burst of speed." —from Chapter One
Although Kansas is now high and dry, at one time the state, like most of the Midwest, was under water. Until the land finally rose above sea level during the final years of the Late Cretaceous, the area was covered by a succession of oceans whose geologic record is preserved in the sedimentary rock that covers the Great Plains.
Oceans of Kansas tells the story of the five million years when giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth flourished in and around this shallow sea. The abundant and well-preserved remains of these prehistoric animals were the source of great excitement in the scientific community of the day when they were first discovered in the 1860s. Two of the best-known fossil hunters of the time, E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh, competed vigorously to recover the best specimens. During the past 130 years, thousands have been collected and sent to museums around the world.
Michael J. Everhart tells the fascinating story of their discovery, re-creates the animals and the world in which they lived, and presents the fruits of the latest research into the natural history of America's ancient inland sea.
Customer Reviews:
Informative.......2007-05-14
A long winded with the history of the paleo pioneers but extremely well done. I enjoyed it.
Oceans of Kansas: A review.......2007-01-26
I was looking for an 'intermediate level' book on Marine Reptiles and I bought this book based on good reports in some of the earlier reviews. I wasn't disappointed it cleverly manages to appeal to everyone from the interested non-specialist (me) to a research student working either on the basin or one of the families of animals described. The centrepiece of the book are the colour plates featuring 11 evocative paintings by Varner. Most chapters are based on a particular family and it is gratifying that the less 'glamourous' inhabitants get as many chapters as the Marine Reptiles. (Although I started out looking for books on Marine reptiles I am glad I ended up with one that describes the whole Eco-system).
Each chapter starts with a well-written, imaginary snap-shot of life in the sea, often based on one of the paintings or an actual fossil. Thereafter it gets into more technical detail which the non-specialist can take or leave depending on your interests. It is worth dipping in and out of however: there are lots of anecdotes about how some of the fossils were found and the general history of the area.
The black and white illustrations - mainly photographs - are sharp and generally close to the text that refers to them. The book is nicely laid out and even at its most technical, easy to read.
Wow!!.......2007-01-10
Mr. Everhart provides first-hand insight and fabulous references that will accurately inform and entertain any science enthusiast or educator! His book is THE authoritative reference for the Cretaceous-era marine event in the American hemisphere, and it is invaluable to me for my field work collecting fossils.
long hard slog.......2006-11-06
I did finally get to the end of this book, but it was just out of stubborness. Not worth the effort. A book review of about 10 pages would have been a better way to learn a little about this subject,
Should be one like it for every state!.......2006-08-07
I found the description of this book intriguing and found it listed in a couple of different places, so I decided I was fated to read it. I wasn't disappointed either. Although in places the non-professional may find their eyes glazing, for the most part, it is full of interesting information on the faunal era of the Cretaceous Interior Sea of North America (roughly the entire Midwest from Northern Canada to the present Gulf of Mexico).
Particularly fascinating is Everhart's discussion of the famous fossil finders of Kansas: Professor Benjamin Mudge, the Sternberg family (George H., George M., and Charles H.), Theophilus Turner, and Samuel Williston, all of whom provided some of the earliest and finest material from this period now found in Eastern and European museums. Some of their finds formed the type basis of species and genus descriptions for the marine fauna of the age world wide.
Should anyone have the erroneous impression that scientists are totally objective and above petty squabbles, the author's frequent comments on the famous Cope and Marsh and their "bone wars," will totally disabuse you of the notion. Marsh from the Yale Peabody Museum and Cope from the Accademy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia conducted a personal battle to be the first to describe and name in print specimen arriving from the midwest that is virtually legendary in paleontology and geology departments. Both employed the local talent of Kansas to find suitable museum quality specimen for display. The 19th century seemed to have been the age of "collections" of every conceivable type. In an age before television and cinema, such collections drew large crowds, as P. T. Barnum's' menagerie of oddities illustrated. In their field of natural history, the two scientists rivaled the ambitions of the fine art and archaeological collectors of some of the nation's art museums and even Barnum's more eclectic presentations.
Particularly interesting is the author's presentation of his own fossil finds and of the techniques and difficulties in removing specimen from their in situ location to one for preservation. It is obvious from his occasional reference to his field work that he is not simply an armchair or lab bound paleontologist. Although not the more biographical work that the writing of Peter Ward tends to be, in context, the personal experiences described by Everhart provide the reader with some idea of what the field involves. This might be of some interest to young people looking for a career in the biological sciences that does not involve all indoor work.
The book is extremely well organized, introducing the geology and earth history of the region now the part of the state of Kansas and describing in some detail the various categories of animals found there. Each of the chapters on a given type of animal is introduced by a short fictional account of what their life was like and how the particular specimen introduced might have met its end. This allows the reader to picture the animal as more than a lifeless pile of "old bones." Each chapter also introduces the genera and species within it, the period in which they flourished and that in which they seem to have disappeared. The author also discusses the rarity of finds and the possible causes thereof. Where indicated he also brings in information from neighboring states where species appear either before or after those in Kansas, so that the reader has a better understanding of extinction, regression and transgression of sea water and its residual rock facies, and the character of life and death in a changing environment. Completing this discussion, he also gives a thorough account of when, where, and by whom specific fossils were found and named. In short a history of their provenance and subsequent disposition. One could actually go to see these individual specimen if one chose to do so and know everything known about them.
From his discussion of the literature and of the finds and communications of other workers in the field, it is very apparent that the author is both well read and well connected. He does not write or work in isolation, but collaboratively with those in his specialty. The entries in his bibliography are extensive, including older works regarding the history of given researchers or type fossils, and more recent journal articles on finds made that extend or change the designation or understanding of a specimen and/or its relationship to others. A student doing a paper on paleontology, on the Cretaceous, on Kansas in particular, or on a given animal from the period, would find this bib a good place to start their research, and the author's style and organization a good paradigm.
The author's discussion of and some of the plates illustrating finds suggest that the Sternberg Museum collection would be a wonderful place to spend some time. One of these days, I may take a few days of vacation to visit Fort Hays and its State University to do just that.
There should be one of these books for every state and its representative faunal periods. Someone do Minnesota next!
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A time-warp machine offering the ultimate travel experience is ready to take off to the Cretaceous Period when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
Now paleontologist Rick Clements and a select group of tourists have arrived-unfortunately, just in time to witness the meteor that once laid waste to earth 65,000,000 years ago.
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining.......2006-10-11
I picked up this book in a discount store for a buck. The cover didn't look very interesting, but I love sci/fi (especially time travel stories) and decided to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. It is an excellent story that made me stay up far later than i should reading to see what would happen next. The only reason I gave it 4 stars was because I found the constant POV change to be a little awkward at times, especially when one of those POVs was a dinosaur. I loved the ending, and for the first time in a long time, I didn't see it coming. I look forward to reading more books by this author.
Good read.......2005-12-13
Hey, it isn't classical science fiction, but it is a good straighforward read about time paradoxes, hungry dinosaurs, survival, and people falling in love. The author has good style, and keeps it entertaining. The story moves along towards an exciting climax. It worked for me.
A decent dino/first novel. 3.6 stars.......2005-11-28
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I have a weakness for dinosaur fiction, and picked this one up on a whim. This was Hubbell's first novel and it's a pretty good one. Our Hero, a paleontology grad-student, finds himself working for a dodgy time-tour outfit on the very eve of the big end-of-Cretaceous dino blowoff. He and his new richbitch girlfriend get rather closer to the fireball than they intended....
Here's a decent review by Donna Scanlon, who liked it rather more than I did: (...)
"Hubbell's Cretaceous Sea demonstrates all the hallmarks of good storytelling: a strong plot, appealing characters and lively, vivid language that evokes the sounds and smells of a world we can only imagine."
I found the book a bit cartoonish and clumsily-written, but still enjoyed it. There's a sequel, Sea of Time (2004), which I haven't read.
Happy reading--
Pete Tillman
The story is where it's at..........2005-01-29
Yes, it's classified as science fiction, but the real story here is ...well, the story. Yes, it's about time travel, but that only sets up the real tale, which is about a trio struggling to stay alive when everything is stacked against them. This is not Michael Crichton - the technical aspects are concerned more with paleontology than time machines.
The main plot in this book could have just as easily taken place in the desert, instead of a meteor-impact-induced wasteland, with lions chasing the heroes instead of starving dinosaurs. Each time you think that the characters are about to win out, they are dealt a devastating setback. That might not be so special in itself, but the characters are so likeable that you just have to keep rooting for them, all the while believing that there's really just no chance that they will survive. The only times the time travel aspect really comes into play is at the end when it's used to give the story a couple of great twists.
Need more proof that this is just a great story? I gave the book (along with Sea of Time) to my mother, who hates science fiction. She just laughed at me. But I convinced her to give them a try, and she called me in a couple of days to thank me for giving them to her. She couldn't stop talking about them. If you're a big reader - especially and ecclectic one - I think you'll love them.
Montana Isle gives the term "tourist trap" new meaning.......2004-08-30
It's pretty much standard practice - if you travel in time, you pretty much have to pay a visit to the dinosaurs. In the case of Will Hubbell's Cretaceous Sea, the cast of characters has no other choice because the only time coordinates available to them transport them back to the late Cretaceous era. This isn't standard time travel science fiction, though; in the hands of the author, time travel is more a means to an end than anything else. The actual journey back in time is surprisingly bland here; you would expect man's first temporal journey to be full of technical jargon and references to all kinds of whatsits and to take on some kind of kaleidoscopic majesty in the telling. Here, the journey is nothing short of boring. Time travel itself isn't the real focus of the novel, of course, so it is not really a weakness. The story really only begins when our party of eight arrive some 65 million years in the past.
Peter Green is the mysterious man behind the secret time machine, and he is intent on getting the financial support of a Mr. Moneybags by the name of John Greighton. Greighton agrees to come along for the temporal ride, seeing the trip to "Montana Isle" as a vacation to the most exotic resort ever conceived - one which just so happens to exist 65 million years in the past. He brings along his latest silly, young fiancé as well as his somewhat estranged daughter Constance. Green isn't too happy when he learns Constance is coming, so he has an underling hire paleontology graduate student Rick Clements to join the team and, in so doing, keep Constance out of his hair. Clements is skeptical of the time travel claim, but he can't pass up an opportunity to study live dinosaurs. Rick, unhappy with the unexpected duties he finds himself providing for the "guests," soon begins to figure out that there is something not right about this whole thing - the artificial caves for the rich "tourists" do not seem to have been constructed by human hand, for instance, and Green's assistant Joe definitely seems to be keeping some important secrets. After a rocky start, he and Con develop a connection, and she leads him to still more mysterious secrets, in the form of unknown technology, hidden inside the caves. One such object of seemingly alien design is a set of strange, constantly changing symbols. Eventually, Rick figures out that it is a clock counting down to nothing less than the K-T event. The "resort" is actually an observatory located in extremely close proximity (geographically as well as temporally) to the spot where the giant meteor that killed the dinosaurs crashed to earth - staying on the island means imminent death.
The second half of the novel becomes a story of survival in the hardest of ecological times. In the wake of the meteor crash, Earth's skies are preternaturally darkened for months, the temperature drops to frigid levels, vegetation is devastated by the environmental impact of the meteorite, and wildlife dwindles down to next to nothing. Small mammals may have survived the end of the Cretaceous Era, but that doesn't mean a twenty-first century man and woman with few supplies can, especially when a few dangerous dinosaur breeds are wandering around with increasingly empty stomachs. Living in such a devastated world, cut off from everyone and everything you have known (by 65 million years, no less) is tough, but it is here that Will Hubbell's main characters finally begin to shine.
As the secrets of Green's time machine are gradually revealed, more and more questions are raised as to the actual origin of the device, the people who built it and their goals, the prospect for Rick and Con ever returning to their own time, and others. The paradox of traveling back and forth in time only adds additional ambiguity to the mix. Hubbell is able to engineer a small series of plot shifts as the plot advances toward its conclusion, making up for a few weak spots in the story and ensuring that Cretaceous Sea comes across as an entertaining, thought-provoking novel.
The reader knows from the start that Peter Green is up to no good, and his ambitions turn out to be of a very stereotypical variety. Actually, all of the secondary characters in the novel are rather weak and shallow, especially John Greighton and his annoying fiancé. Only one supporting character possesses enough depth to ever become interesting. Rick and Con, for their part, are much more agreeable characters - Cretaceous Sea is really their story, and the novel really doesn't begin clicking on all cylinders until the focus is squarely placed on their fight for survival. Several aspects of the novel could have benefited from more time and attention, but Hubbell does manage to produce a fairly unpredictable ending that works quite well indeed. There's not enough to Cretaceous Sea to make it a truly impressive science fiction novel, but it is certainly an above-average, wonderfully entertaining piece of writing.
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This seminal book brings together every important dinosaur find from the last two centuries and from the world's richest fossil sites. The result is a comprehensive, groundbreaking book that details every kind of prehistoric creature known from the age of
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Sharks and dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sharks, we find them both alien and awe-inspiring, at once utterly inhuman and somehow irresistibly compelling. But forget Jaws and Jurassic Park—nothing can prepare you for Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, an amazing plunge into the Cretaceous oceans of 80 million years ago, a merciless realm ruled by the most ferocious animals ever to stalk the seas of planet Earth. More terrifying than anything known to humankind, it scarcely seems possible that these swift, massive underwater predators actually existed, but they did—and this is their frightening, fascinating, unforgettable story.
Featuring incredibly realistic computer-generated images and 3-D film clips—with 3-D glasses—field photography by National Geographic cameramen, and much more, the book interweaves dramatic scenes of the far, far distant past; up-to-the-minute scientific profiles of nearly two dozen sea monsters; and a group portrait of the eccentric Sternberg family, Kansas-bred pioneers of marine paleontology. From giant sharks and fierce reptiles to the fossil-hunters who proved that today's land-locked Great Plains were once submerged, to the cutting-edge Large Format Film technology that made Sea Monsters possible, this book and the movie behind it will forever change how we think about marine predators—and make us look at the oceans of our world with new eyes and a shivery mix of wonderment and ancient, instinctive fear.
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Palaeogene and Cretaceous palaeoceaongraphy has been the focus of intense international interest in the last few years, spurred by deep ocean drilling at Blake Nose in the North Atlantic as well as the need to use past climate change as input for modelling future climate change. This book brings together a number of review papers that describe ancient oceans and unique events in the Earth's climatic history and evolution of biota. The papers show evidence of periods characterised by exceptional global warmth such as Late Palaeocene Thermal Maximum and Cretaceous anoxic events. Geochemical records and modelling will make the reader aware that these periods were forced by greenhouse gases. This information is essential for understanding the response of the ocean-climate system to the current input of fossil fuels. In this sense, the book contributes to the understanding of fundamental aspects of Earth's climate, the carbon cycle, and marine ecosystems. A number of papers describe massive mass wasting deposits resulting from energy released by the bolide impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary as well as the geochemistry of the boundary itself. Additional papers cover aspects of cyclostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of Palaeogene and Cretaceous records. Readership:Earth Scientists interested in Palaeogene-Cretaceous palaeoceanography, extreme climate modelling, Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Late Palaeocene Thermal Maximum, Cretaceous anoxic events, as well as those specifically interested in radiolarian, dinoflagellate and coccolithophorid stratigraphy.
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This digital document is a journal article from Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Seasonal temperature fluctuations of Tethyan coastal water are recorded in a pristine, ~80-My-old rudist shell from Turkey. In order to critically assess factors other than seawater temperature that might have influenced the shell geochemical record, three different paleo-temperature proxies (@d^1^8O, Mg/Ca and @d^4^4Ca) were applied. In a qualitative manner, all three proxies reflect the same cyclical trends and thus yield robust evidence for seasonal fluctuations in Late Cretaceous surficial seawater temperature. This suggests the successful application of the new @d^4^4Ca temperature proxy to fossil mollusk calcite. The direct comparison of the three data sets, however, demonstrates that all proxies are fraught with problems. Similar to other studies, ^1^8O/^1^6O ratios point to warmer summer temperature maxima than those in comparable costal settings today. Nevertheless, the ^1^8O/^1^6O proxy is subject to environmental factors that might lead to an overestimation of peak temperatures. Moreover, Mg/Ca molar ratios are less sensitive to environmental factors but were strongly affected by the ion regulating capability of the rudist bivalve that responded to the low Mg/Ca ratio of Cretaceous seawater. Similarly, uncertainties of the @d^4^4Ca composition of Cretaceous seawater and the complex bio-calcification of mollusks presently limit the interpretation of @d^4^4Ca values in terms of absolute seawater temperature. The multiproxy approach applied here, however, documents that these limitations do not obscure the dominant patterns of seasonal sea-surface temperature variations recorded in the biogeochemical rudist archive.
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What does it mean to be a marginalized person as an immigrant?.......2005-08-24
There have not been much materials of "Theological reflection" about being Korean-Americans. I assume that it is because of the short immigrant history in the North America. Therefore, the famous Korean American theologians I remember are handful: Sanghyun Lee is a professor at Princeton, Jung Young Lee was a professor at Drew University and passed away, and Andrew Sung Park is a professor at United Theological Seminary. Among them, Jung Young Lee's book which contains theological reflections about his marginalized life in the United States is very insightful and helpful for me who is on the same boat.
Through his book, Marginality, Lee is seeking the answer to the question, "What is the meaning of life as an ethnic minority in America?" Therefore, this book is his faithful and theological reflection regarding the issue of `living' in the North America as a marginalized person. As another Korean Christian immigrant, I really enjoyed reading this book from chapter by chapter because it is like my own story and all of his issues are what I have been struggling with as a Christian leader. Through this book, most of all, I realized that I'm not alone in this struggle with existential and theological questionings. I also expanded my narrow perspective of Korean-Canadian to Asian-American/Canadian, and I affirmed that my own theologizing has been on right track: finding out creativity of marginal situation, interpreting our situation as liminality with communitas, and considering identity discovery as the first step of creative transformation.
In his book, Lee takes `authobiographical method' for his theological method, saying, "Theology is certainly autobiographical, because I alone can tell my faith story ... if theology is contextual, it must certainly be at root autobiographical" (Lee 1995:7). Therefore, he uses freely several forms from his life for his doing theology such as parable, narrative, and poetry.
He starts his theologizing from his context, the margin of the North America. He introduces and soon refuses the classical definition of marginality that emphasizes only the negative side of marginality such as alienation, rejection, and struggles, and so forth. According to him, this is a product of centrality, which has to be overcome ultimately. The central groups view this marginality as "In-between" paradigm. However, it has to be overcome by the new definition of marginality, which is brought from his new marginal perspective. The new one is related to `both/and' and `In-beyond' approach, but it is totally new and creative because it is very `holistic.' He explains, "Just as `in-between' and `in-both' are one `in-beyond,' the margin and creative core are inseparable in new marginality" (61). Therefore, the norm of new marginality is the harmony of difference, and through this paradigm, he can be both an American and well as an Asian. "The new marginal person can be a reconciler and a wounded healer to the two-category system" (63). Through it, he refuses the paradigm of `either or' and `neither nor.' Instead, he combines both in a creative way, introducing his oriental philosophy, `ying/yang' paradigm. What he believes is that only through this new perspective, the marginal people can overcome the old paradigm, which has concentrated on only `centrality.'
He does not stop there. Instead, he goes further to reinterpret the main themes of traditional (the Western dominant) theology such as God, Jesus, Creation, the Fall, People of God, and the Church. All of these themes are dealt with in this book through his new marginality paradigm. The most impressive point for me is his last chapter regarding `creative transformation,' which emphasizes "overcoming Marginality through Marginality." His main point is that overcoming all structural and personal marginal experiences comes from love and patience as Jesus overcame his through these. This way, to shake the traditional norm through the marginal strategy, then, stimulates and challenges the people of center to move down or toward the margin. Through it, his final vision is making `Garden' where all different plants grow together in harmony. He insists:
"When centralist people understand that the center they seek is not real, they will be liberated from centrality and seek the creative center. When this transformation happens, centrality changes to marginality, and marginality changes to new marginality, and all people become marginal. Marginality is overcome through marginality, and all are marginal to God manifest in Jesus-Christ. When all of us are marginal, love becomes the norm of our lives, and service becomes the highest aspiration of our creativity. We then become servants to one another in love" (170).
I believe that Lee's theology is very practical for his Asian-American Christian community. It is a powerful theology because it provides his people clear `self-identity,' which is strongly needed today. What I believe is that the most severe struggle of immigrants is whether they have the meaning of life or not in a foreign land. Here, Lee's comment is insightful, "The ethnic minority churches, especially Korean-American churches, must rediscover or create their own identity as communities of marginalized people" (144).
Another valuable point of his theology is its stimulating role toward the traditional theology. Lee's work is a new paradigm and new perspective, reflecting the main theological themes through the perspective of marginality, which is seldom for the white-dominant theology. Actually, it insists that both traditional/white-dominant theology and ethnic minority-dominant theology are seeking the center and privilege today. He cries out that all Christians - both in center and in margin - should get the idea, not seeking the center but seeking the margin, moving from above to down and going out from the center to the margin, following what Jesus Christ did.
Moreover, his view gives me a new vision of harmony, which I believe is the ultimate form of the Kingdom of God. This is the prototype form of the church (Acts 2) and form of heavenly end time (Rev 7:9). God intended the Gospel for all race and nations when he created the world, and He gave us the variety of cultures to be used for His glory. Therefore, the context of the North America, as multi-cultural/ethnic situation is a wonderful chance to manifest this harmony.
Lee's book also lets me see what others - especially the dominant group - cannot see. His holistic view of `in-both' and `in-beyond' cannot be formed through the typical western cognitive style (dualistic, either/or). As an Asian, he clearly uses the integrative way of `ying/yang' in his theology. That is why his theology is unique and powerful. Another example of this that he can see what others cannot see as he points out the creative potential of marginality. According to him, "when people become the new marginality, they became the subject of salvation history" (152). This is the place of victimized immigrants' transformation. When the marginality gets the proper self-identity, their liminal stage can be the place of creative minority, who can become catalysts to transform the world (152-153). It is a very insightful discovery.
Meanwhile, I feel that his theology is somewhat radical. It is because there is a clear possibility to shake off all past theological paradigms through his new approach. For example, he asks people and church to follow his marginal perspective for doing theology, giving up the centrality and taking the marginality. His opinion sounds as if all traditional theology and church have been wrong and need to be corrected.
Nevertheless, I believe that this book is very unique which contains wonderful theological reflections. His perspective toward the issue of marginality is much needed and well developed. In fact, he is humble enough to admit that he is just a cornerstone and expect other's adding different stones toward the fuller expression of this theology (172). Personally, this book helps me a lot regarding the question, "What does it mean to be a marginalized person as an immigrant?" His reflection actually helps me to build up my `self-identity.' This can be a good starting point for my project which is from `who we are' to `where we are' and `for what we are.'
An interesting read with some controversial conclusions.......2005-05-08
In this book, Dr. Lee tries to write a theology based on his expereicnes of being marginalized as an Asian-AMerican in the Unites States. THis book is definately in the stream of Liberation theology and is an interested read for all people interested in how theology is formulated by those who are outside of mainstreams of power.
Brutally honest in emotion, this book weaves theology and expereince together in order to create a new perspective that both understands the center of theology but also is faithful to his roots.
The only problem I had is with some of his recommendations for change. In some, I did not fully understand how he came to his conclusions from what he wrote. However, even with this bit of confusion, this book is still a good book for those who are interested in liberation ethics.
Very thought provoking.......2004-08-31
This is one of those books where, as a reader, you probably will need much time to digest what the author has presented. Unlike many theological books, Jung Young Lee's emotional passions are included, revealing to the reader the foundations of his perspective. He knows firsthand the joys and sorrows of being marginalized.
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