Open Friendship in a Closed Society
Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship
Published on 9. October 2009
275 pages
978-0-19-970693-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. Slade argues that Mission Mississippi's goal of "changing Mississippi one relationship at a time" is both a pragmatic strategy and a theological statement of hope for social and economic change in Mississippi.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Open and Closed
- Jürgen Moltmann and Open Friendship
- James Wesley Silver and the Closed Society
- 3. Mission Mississippi
- From Rallies to Meaningful Relationships
- Mission Mississippi's Theologies of Racial Reconciliation
- 4. 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
- Conclusions
- 5. Reconciliation 101: Opening Friendship
- 6. A Practice of Open Friendship
- Prayer Breakfasts
- A Lived Theology of Prayer and Reconciliation
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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