Open friendship in a closed society : Mission Mississippi and a theology of friendship

Open friendship in a closed society : Mission Mississippi and a theology of friendship / Peter Slade.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slade, Peter, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Mission Mississippi (Organization)
Church work with minorities > Mississippi.
Race relations > Religious aspects > Christianity.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Church work with minorities
Race relations
Race relations > Religious aspects > Christianity
Mississippi > Race relations.
Mississippi
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Open and closed
  • Jürgen 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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