A Nazareth Manifesto
Being with God
Published on 24. March 2015
336 pages
978-1-118-78518-8 (ISBN)
Description
A Nazareth Manifesto is an eloquent and impassionedecumenical proposal for re-envisioning Christianity'sapproach to social engagement away from working "for"the people to being "with" them.
* Questions the effectiveness of the current trend ofintervention as a means of fixing the problems of people indistressed and disadvantaged circumstances
* Argues that Jesus spent 90% of his life simply being among thepeople of Nazareth, sharing their hopes and struggles, thereforeChristians should place a similar emphasis on being alongsidepeople in need rather than hastening to impose solutions
* Written by a respected priest and broadcaster and renownedChristian ethicist and preacher
* Supported by historical, contemporary, exegetical and anecdotalillustrations
Reviews / Votes
"It is academic and intelligent while being accessible. It is, at the same time, highly original, and devotional and inspiring." (Church Times, May 2016) At the interface of critical academic reflection and faithful church theology, we have no better voice than that of Sam Wells. He invites us to rethink, from the ground up, our abiding temptation to condescending "help and service" to others. He compellingly renders a more excellent way toward the transformative "with." Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary This is a well documented book which reveals how the essential of the message of Jesus helps us all to construct a more human society, based on true and faithful relationships. Not doing for but being with. Samuel Walls with his academic skills and his pastoral heart shows us how confused personalities can become human when there is a true and faithful relationship. Being with is healing. This is a book that should be read by many. Jean VanierMore details
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Samuel Wells is the vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Visiting Professor of Christian ethics at King's College, London. He is a former Dean of Duke University Chapel in North Carolina, USA, and has published more than 20 books, including Living Without Enemies: Being Present in the Midst of Violence (2012), Be Not
Afraid: Facing Fear with Faith (2011), and Introducing Christian Ethics (with Ben Quash, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
Content
Prologue: The Most Important Word 1
Introduction: God Is With Us 7
1 Being With 11
2 A Nazareth Manifesto 20
Part I: Realignment 33
3 Reassessing the Human Predicament 35
4 Reconceiving the Divine Purpose 50
Part II: God is With Us 65
5 The Story of Jesus 67
6 The Stories of Jesus 86
7 Embodying the Story of Jesus 100
Part III: Being With 123
8 God Being With God 125
9 God Being With Us 147
10 Being With One Another in Nazareth 169
11 Being With One Another in Galilee 187
12 Being With One Another in Jerusalem 202
Part IV: Explorations 229
13 Th eological Ramifications 231
14 Social Embodiments 248
Part V: Implications 269
15 The Transcendence of Justice 271
16 The Transfiguration of Suffering 283
Epilogue: Magnificat 298
Acknowledgments 304
Afterword 305
Scriptural Index 311
Subject Index 314
