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Open friendship in a closed society [electronic resource] : Mission Mississippi and a theology of friendship / Peter Slade.
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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 262 p.) : illISBN: - 9780199706938 (electronic bk.)
- 019970693X (electronic bk.)
- 277.62/083089 22
- BV4468 .S53 2009eb
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Summary: 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.
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.
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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.
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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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