A Presence that Disturbs: A Call to Radical Discipleship - Softcover

Gittins CSPS, Anthony J.

 
9781498234337: A Presence that Disturbs: A Call to Radical Discipleship
Softcover
ISBN 10: 149823433X ISBN 13: 9781498234337
Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This powerful, moving, and "disturbing" book looks at the contemporary issues that block the attainment of a revitalized church--a church united rather than fragmented, a church tuned to justice for all rather than to provincial myopia. A Presence that Disturbs will engage the general reader and the specialist alike with a fresh perspective on what it means to follow Christ. Three themes garnered from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl underpin the message of this book. To live you must choose: you must not let life "just happen." To love you must encounter: you must know that human encounter is the only authentic way to know and love. To grow you must suffer: you must know that suffering can be a vehicle of growth, a chance for redemption, a way to turn ourselves to the outside. Gittins discusses these themes in the context of the search for meaning. The new lease on life endowed by the Holy Spirit, the function of imaginative ministry, the communitas of true discipleship, and the radical actions of Jesus' ministry are just a few of the ideas explored in the quest for a new understanding of discipleship. "Authentic Christianity," says Gittins, "is outreaching and encountering; it communicates and ministers. Christianity, like its sibling, Judaism, does not produce complacency, but complicity or participation with others. Theses pages are an invitation to renewed discipleship and an appeal to radical Christianity in the footsteps and in the Spirit of Jesus, who prayed that his followers be one in him."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anthony J. Gittins, CSSp., is a member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) and currently holds the Bishop F.X. Ford M.M. Chair of Missiology at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. He is an anthropologist working in theological education and ministry. His recent books include Reading The Clouds: Mission Spirituality for New Times (Liguori, MO., 1999), A Presence That Disturbs: A Call To Radical Christian Living (Liguori, MO., 2002), and Ministry On the Margins: Spirituality and Strategy for Mission (Orbis, NY., 2002).

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Verlag
Wipf and Stock
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
149823433X
ISBN 13 
9781498234337
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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