Compassion as a Subversive Activity
Illness, Community, and the Gospel of Mark
1st Edition
Published on 25. October 2006
144 pages
978-1-4616-3533-8 (ISBN)
Description
To Dr. David Urion's question, "How can I help you?" the father of the young boy with autism responded in a small voice that choked back some tears, "Be with us. Keep us company. This is so lonely."
This book is part of Dr. Urion's attempt to keep his promise, a promise which in fact we all made to this family and to many families on the day of their child's baptism. Baptism by baptism, in each of our faith communities, we vow to do everything in our power to support them in their life in God.
Urion beckons us to contemplate the miraculous healings in the Gospel of Mark as subversive political acts of power that provide examples of restoring the integrity and the wholeness of the community, not just for the persons who are overtly healed but for the community as well. The tales of power he invites us to consider in this book reflect upon the extraordinary and paradoxical power of the powerless.
This book is part of Dr. Urion's attempt to keep his promise, a promise which in fact we all made to this family and to many families on the day of their child's baptism. Baptism by baptism, in each of our faith communities, we vow to do everything in our power to support them in their life in God.
Urion beckons us to contemplate the miraculous healings in the Gospel of Mark as subversive political acts of power that provide examples of restoring the integrity and the wholeness of the community, not just for the persons who are overtly healed but for the community as well. The tales of power he invites us to consider in this book reflect upon the extraordinary and paradoxical power of the powerless.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-3533-8 (9781461635338)
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10/2006
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Person
By David Urion
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Radical Inclusion and our Baptismal Vows
- I The Power of the Powerless to Restore Community
- Miracles
- Compassion as a Subversive Activity
- Healing as a Political Act
- II The Deeds of Power: Encounters
- The Man with the Unclean Spirit What Does the Face of Love Look Like?
- Simon's Mother-in-law The Virtue of Staying Useful
- The Leper Choosing to Exile or Embrace
- The Paralytic Restored by the Faith of Friends
- The Man with the Withered Hand On Cultivating Compassion and Lovingkindness
- The Gerasene Demoniac Living into the Full Measure of Our Lives
- The Woman with a Hemorrhage and Jairus' Daughter Touching Power and Faith
- The III of Gennesaret Unexpected Grace and Sacramental Work
- The Syrophoenician Woman's Daughter Making Place at the Table
- The Deaf-Mute On Being Open(ed)
- The Blind Man On Seeing More Clearly . . . Day by Day
- The Epileptic Boy Help My Unbelief
- Blind Bartimaeus Seeing Others Truly
- Ill Community Restored
- You Are Not Far from the Kingdom
- He Is Going Ahead of You to Galilee
- Reflection Questions
