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Faith-rooted organizing : mobilizing the church in service to the world / Alexia Salvatierra & Peter Heltzel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salvatierra, Alexia, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communities--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Communities.
- Community organization.
- Church work.
- Evangelistic work.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Since the 1930s, organizing movements for social justice in the U.S. have largely been built on assumptions that are secular origin such as reliance on self-interest and having a common enemy as a motivator for change. But what if Christians were to shape their organizing around the implications of the truth that God is real and Jesus is risen? Alexia Salvatierra has developed a model of social action that is rooted in the values and convictions born of faith. Together with theologian Peter Heltzel, this model of "faith-rooted organizing" offers a path to meaningful social change that takes seriously the command to love God and to love our neighbor as ourself.
- Contents:
- The roots of faith-rooted organizing
- Dreaming God's dream together : the goals of faith-rooted organizing
- Our starting place, the call of the poor
- Discerning the kairos
- Questions of power and hope
- The gift of Christ-centered community
- Individual gifts : chaplaincy to the poor and the powerful
- Prophetic advocacy and public witness
- Recruitment : God's pitchfork
- Developing the body of Christ
- Prophetic spirituality : sustaining the struggle
- Appendix: Faith-rooted serpent power.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780830864690
- 0830864695
- OCLC:
- 869434747
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