If the church is more than just a building, what could it mean to live in it--to inhabit it as a way of life? From their location in new monastic communities, Otto, Stock, and Wilson-Hartgrove ask what the church can learn from St. Benedict's vows of conversion, obedience, and stability about how to live as the people of God in the world. In storytelling and serious engagement with Scripture, old wisdom breathes life into a new monasticism. But, like all monastic wisdom, these reflections are not just for monks. They speak directly to the challenge of being the church in America today and the good news Christ offers for the whole world. Conversations between contemporary Christian communities and Benedictine monasticism are among the most surprising and promising in the church today. Given that the roots of monasticism and of contemporary Protestantism lie in different parts of the Christian tradition, mutual engagement between contemporary Christians and monastics has been rare. Recently, however, the scene has shifted, and Inhabiting the Church represents the new eagerness to learn the art of living together faithfully from experienced and ancient practitioners. --Christine D. Pohl from the foreword ""Protestants looking for a richer, thicker, more robust and enchanted way of living into the Christian story should not ignore this invitation into the rhythms and cadences of Benedictine spirituality. Indeed, only one kind of person should avoid this book: the reader who does not wish to be changed."" --Lauren F. Winner author of Girl Meets God and Real Sex ""This book is a timely intersection of the new and ancient, breathing fresh life into an aging body. An older generation will find this book a long-awaited reassurance that the Spirit is still stirring radical nonconformity on the margins of empires. And the contemporary renewal of new monastics and prophetic tricksters will find a cure for the pretension and sloppiness that can so often taint our vision or tempt us to pretend that there is 'something new under the sun.' With both courage and humility, we will all find ourselves invited to inhabit the incarnational body that makes God visible to the world . . . May it inspire all of us to become the church that God longs for."" --Shane Claiborne author of The Irresistible Revolution, founding member of The Simple Way, and recovering sinner ""These folks are bringing things both old and new out of the great Christian storehouse! The New Monasticism is discovering what is always rediscovered--and always bears great life for the Gospel."" --Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M. Center for Action and Contemplation Albuquerque, New Mexico Jon Stock is a member of Church of the Servant King, publisher of Wipf and Stock, and proprietor of Windows Booksellers in Eugene, Oregon. Tim Otto serves as an Associate Pastor of the Church of the Sojourners in San Francisco. He is also a part-time nurse at the San Francisco county hospital, working with AIDS and cancer patients. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a member of Rutba House in Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of To Baghdad and Beyond.
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This important book provides a biblical basis for thinking about our world differently and prompts us to consider changing our own actions. Visit inhabitingeden.org for links to additional resources and information.
When you watched the movie, Patch Adams, what did you: Hope? remember? Think? Pray? How was Patch Adams like the reformers? Isaiah 61:1–11 is filled with promises of healing for people who are broken, oppressed, grieved and lonely.
IV, by J. Clinton McCann, Jr. (Abingdon Press, 1996); pages 641–77; and The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, by Michael D. Coogan (Oxford University Press, 2006); pages 456–68. 4.
Some, especially Hamerton-Kelly, have followed René Girard's lead and argued that Paul was trapped in the “system of sacred violence”10 that is driven by “mimetic [imitative] violence and surrogate victimage”11 and rooted in the ...
Doug and Marilyn Stewart have been friends and spiritual mentors for three decades, and this book reflects much of their spiritual wisdom. Steve and Sharol Hayner have likewise invested in me, offering their care and encouragement from ...
As Meeghan cleaned out Guinn's apartment, she came across an old, weathered 3 x 5 card that read “Don't put me in a nursing home” signed in small print “Guinnevere G. Collins.” Darin and Meeghan began to wrestle with what it meant to be ...