Beyond Homelessness by Steven Bouma-Prediger & Brian J. Walsh

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Beyond Homelessness by Steven Bouma-Prediger & Brian J. Walsh

Description

There's no place like home -- A culture of displacement, amnesia, and homelessness -- Which memories, what home? -- Biblical homecoming -- Kenneth and Kkenny again -- The meaning of home -- Categories of displacement -- The problem of boundaries -- The necessity of boundaries -- A phenomenology of home -- The ambivalence of home revisited -- Socioeconomic homelessness -- Streetcar sped away -- Nobody's child -- Homelessness : a socioethical crisis -- Why socioeconomic homelessness? : a structural analysis -- Homelessness : a socioethical crisis revisited -- Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery -- From housing to home-making -- The shape of worldviews -- Worldviews, houses, and homes : a summary -- Houses and homes again -- Housing for home-making -- Economics for home-making -- Rights, public policy, and the church -- More than bricks and mortar -- The ecological crisis and the defilement of home -- The plight of planet earth: -- Ecological degradation and human deafness -- Why ecological homelessness? : a sociocultural analysis -- The home planet : the earth as oikos -- Shalom and the character of earthkeeping -- The biblical vision of Shalom -- The virtues of Shalom -- Practices of earthkeepers -- Christians as aching visionaries -- Postmodern homelessness -- Double homesickness "over the rainbow" -- Homeless home constructors -- Homelessness, migrancy, and the tourist self -- On the road to nowhere -- Postmodern migrants or homeless consumers? -- The indwelling God and the sojourning community -- The God of love and creation as other -- The God of grace and creation as gift -- The God of goodness and creation as good -- Christ-followers as sojourners -- Homeward bound -- Redemptive homecoming -- Hope, home, and imagination -- The home-making father. xv, 361 p. ;23 cm.

Book Details

Author

Bouma-Prediger, Steven., Walsh, Brian J.

Place Published

City

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Date Published

2008

Publication Subjects

Home--Religious aspects--Christianity. Homelessness--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Call No.

BR115 .H56 B67 2008

ISBN

9780802846921 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007045769

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-346) and indexes.