Just Hospitality by Letty M. Russell

Book

Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Description

From many parts, a whole -- In honor of Letty Mandeville Russell -- Following the clues -- Why hospitality? -- On being a misfit : embracing hospitality -- In but still out -- Making sense of myself -- Living on the margins -- Becoming a feminist -- The gift of not fitting -- Church inside out -- Church in the round -- One call, many ministries -- Ministry of hospitality -- Hospitality -- Difference -- The new hospitality -- Postcolonial interpretation -- Postcolonial subjects -- Postcolonial theological perspectives -- Doctrine of election in postcolonial interpretation -- When election is a problem -- The ambiguity of chosenness -- Feminism and hospitality in postcolonial interpretation -- A feminist hermeneutic of hospitality -- Postcolonial subjects practicing hospitality -- Riotous difference as God's gift to the church -- Biblical views of difference -- Babel's gift of difference -- Pentecost's gift of understanding -- A different kind of unity -- Unity-in-tension -- Unity in hospitality -- Community of Christ -- The source of unity -- Liberating difference -- Reframing a theology of hospitality -- Framing and reframing -- Making a change -- Steps to reframing -- God's hospitality : reframing safety in biblical tradition -- The meaning of safe space -- Searching the scriptures for safe space -- Reframing a text : Ruth's story -- Attending to context -- Developing a spirituality of listening -- Just hospitality -- Unequally yoked -- Justice in "just" hospitality -- Amos's message -- Justice as hospitality in worship -- Hospitality in just hospitality -- Welcome as a metaphor for action -- Transforming God's welcome -- Recognizing just hospitality -- Limits -- Essential characteristics. xviii, 138 p. ;22 cm.

Book Details

Author

Russell, Letty M.

Editor

Clarkson, J. Shannon, Ott, Kate M.

Place Published

City

Louisville, Ky.

Date Published

circa 2009

Publication Subjects

Hospitality--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Call No.

BV4647 .H67 R87 2009

ISBN

9780664233150 (alk. paper), 0664233155 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008039364

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-134) and indexes.