Hopeful Realism in Urban Ministry. Barry K. Morris
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Название: Hopeful Realism in Urban Ministry

Автор: Barry K. Morris

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Религия: прочее

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isbn: 9781498221443

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СКАЧАТЬ I’m not one to lose hope. I keep on hoping. I still have faith in the future. But I’ve had to analyze many things over the last few years and, I would say, over the last few months. I’ve gone through a lot of soul searching and agonizing moments, and I’ve come to see that we have many more difficult days ahead. And some of the old optimism was a little superficial, and now it must be tempered with a solid realism. And I think the realistic fact is that we still have a long, long way to go.1 —Martin Luther King Jr.

      In what follows there are reflections on realism, then hope, and finally a commentary on the combination of hope and realism and its illumining value for a steadfast urban ministry in the service of a faithful public and prophetic ministry. These reflections provide an interpretive framework for this book.

      On Realism: Finitude, Ignorance and Sin

      On Hope: Pressing the Limits

      The practices of hope suggest a wide and deep range of inter-disciplinary activity or even a sensible relaxation of activity for the sake of pacefulness and restored harmony. The linking of meditation, contemplation, and/or prayer to the spheres of being active in ministry has come of age though it has been present in and among the monastic traditions for centuries. Not alone, the new monasticism has retrieved and compellingly given fresh expressions.

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