TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slade,Peter
TI  - Open friendship in a closed society: Mission Mississippi and a theology of friendship 
SN  - 9780199706938 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BV4468 .S53 2009eb
U1  - 277.62/083089 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mission Mississippi (Organization)
KW  - Church work with minorities
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Description based on print version record; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Open and closed -- J�urgen Moltmann and open friendship -- James Wesley Silver and the closed society -- Mission Mississippi -- From rallies to meaningful relationships -- Mission Mississippi's theologies of racial reconciliation -- Open friendship and justice -- Justice, Jackson, and the gospel of reconciliation -- Lee Paris and First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi -- Slavery, segregation, and the spirituality of the church -- The spirituality of the closed church -- Reconciliation 101 : opening friendship -- A practice of open friendship -- Prayer breakfasts -- A lived theology of prayer and reconciliation
N2  - Peter Slade examines Mission Mississippi's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) and considers whether it can effectively address the issue of social justice
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