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Vital Christianity : spirituality, justice, and Christian practice / edited by David L. Weaver-Zercher & William H. Willimon.

Contributor(s): Weaver-Zercher, David, 1960- | Willimon, William H
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : T & T Clark, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0567025519 (pbk.); 9780567025517 (pbk.)Subject(s): Christian life | Social justice | Church | Spirituality | Church and social problems | Christian sociologyDDC classification: 261.8 LOC classification: BV4501.3 | .V58 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The strangeness of spirit, the oddness of justice / William H. Willimon -- Spirit and spirituality: reclaiming biblical transcendence / C. Norman Kraus -- The love of God as the source of spirituality and social justice / David Rensberger -- Justice, spirituality, and the church: the atonement connection / J. Denny Weaver -- Ecclesial discipleship and the unity of spirituality and social justice / Richard D. Crane -- Holistic spirituality as witness / Brad J. Kallenberg -- Living out the peace of God: the apostle Paul's theology and practice of peace / Raymond H. Reimer -- The fulfillment of human nature in Eastern Patristic Christianity / Lisa D. Maugans Driver -- The hiddenness of God and the justice of God: negative theology as social ethical resource / J. Alexander Sider -- Deconstruction, messianic hope, and just action / Gerald J. Biesecker-Mast -- Prayer: just praying, acting justly: contemplation and manifestation / Kent Ira Groff -- Iconography: learning to see: the sacralized vision of Byzantine iconography / Randi Sider-Rose -- Singing: Luke's song as melodies of the marginalized / Rick L. Williamson -- The Lord's Supper: food for the journey: Wesleyan eucharistic piety and the integrated Christian life / Aaron Kerr -- Table fellowship: the spirituality of eating together / Reta Halteman Finger -- Sabbath-keeping: Christian Sabbath-keeping and the desire for justice / L. Roger Owens -- Service: challenging legacies of economic oppression and religious neglect: Habitat for Humanity in the Mississippi Delta / William R. Sutton -- Education: cura personalis: the matrix for social justice in Jesuit secondary education / Dominic P. Scibilia (with excursuses by Roberto Concepcion Jr., Michael Monteleone, Drew Sheeran, Robert Simone, Stephen Spiewak, and Kapil Verma).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The gensis of this volume was a conference called "Reconnecting Spirituality and Social justice" held at Messiah College in June 2002"--P. viii.

The strangeness of spirit, the oddness of justice / William H. Willimon -- Spirit and spirituality: reclaiming biblical transcendence / C. Norman Kraus -- The love of God as the source of spirituality and social justice / David Rensberger -- Justice, spirituality, and the church: the atonement connection / J. Denny Weaver -- Ecclesial discipleship and the unity of spirituality and social justice / Richard D. Crane -- Holistic spirituality as witness / Brad J. Kallenberg -- Living out the peace of God: the apostle Paul's theology and practice of peace / Raymond H. Reimer -- The fulfillment of human nature in Eastern Patristic Christianity / Lisa D. Maugans Driver -- The hiddenness of God and the justice of God: negative theology as social ethical resource / J. Alexander Sider -- Deconstruction, messianic hope, and just action / Gerald J. Biesecker-Mast -- Prayer: just praying, acting justly: contemplation and manifestation / Kent Ira Groff -- Iconography: learning to see: the sacralized vision of Byzantine iconography / Randi Sider-Rose -- Singing: Luke's song as melodies of the marginalized / Rick L. Williamson -- The Lord's Supper: food for the journey: Wesleyan eucharistic piety and the integrated Christian life / Aaron Kerr -- Table fellowship: the spirituality of eating together / Reta Halteman Finger -- Sabbath-keeping: Christian Sabbath-keeping and the desire for justice / L. Roger Owens -- Service: challenging legacies of economic oppression and religious neglect: Habitat for Humanity in the Mississippi Delta / William R. Sutton -- Education: cura personalis: the matrix for social justice in Jesuit secondary education / Dominic P. Scibilia (with excursuses by Roberto Concepcion Jr., Michael Monteleone, Drew Sheeran, Robert Simone, Stephen Spiewak, and Kapil Verma).

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