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Title: Living the Hospitality of God by Lucien Richard ISBN: 0-8091-3998-7 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Summary: A new take on homelessness
Comment: The philosopher Martin Heidegger once said that homelessness is the contemporary problem par excellence. His point isn't that there are too many people living on the streets (although, to our undying shame, there are). Rather, he wants to draw our attention to a deeper malaise: the alienated sense that there's no safe place in which to dwell, that we no longer understand what it means to have a home.
In this short (79 pages) book, Father Lucien Richard explores this theme by focusing on a virtue--hospitality--that both the ancient pagan world and the Christian tradition hold. Hospitality, kindness to strangers, is only possible when one has a sense of home. Today, we often think of home as an utterly private enclosure against the world--every person's home is his/her castle, and the world better keep out! But in fact home ought to be seen as a place where we can grow and develop, and where we can invite others to do likewise. Until we return to a worthier understanding of home, we can't expect to live up to the virtue of hospitality.
Richard's analysis of home and hospitality in terms of mutuality and intimacy not only speaks to us as individuals; it also has obvious implications for social and political situations. A provocative read far weightier than one might suspect from its size.
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Title: Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition by Christine D. Pohl ISBN: 0802844316 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: A Christian View of Hospitality: Expecting Surprises (The Giving Project Series) by Michele Hershberger, Christine D. Pohl ISBN: 0836191099 Publisher: Herald Pr Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Gift of Hospitality: In Church, in the Home, in All of Life by Delia Halverson ISBN: 0827212437 Publisher: Chalice Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love by Lonni Collins Pratt, Daniel Homan ISBN: 1557253099 Publisher: Paraclete Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Widening the Welcome of Your Church: Biblical Hospitality & the Vital Congregation by Fred Bernhard, Steve Clapp, H. Fred Bernhard ISBN: 0963720694 Publisher: Christian Community Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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