What should Christ's injunction to 'love your neighbour' mean in practice today? A team of leading theologians and practitioners explores this question and considers its bearing on the politics of poverty, discrimination, immigration, ecology and the fallout from recent political upheavals in Europe and America.
Richard Carter is Associate Vicarfor Mission at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, with special responsibility for the education programme, international links, hospitality and outreach to refugees. Samuel Wells is Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Formerly Dean of Duke University Chapel, North Carolina, he is also Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King's College London.
Title: Who is My Neighbour?: The Global And Personal Challenge
Author: Wells, The Revd Dr Samuel,Carter, The Revd Richard
ISBN: 9780281078400
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Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Publication Date: 2018-02-15
Number of Pages: 160
Weight: 0.3601 kg
'This outstanding guide helps us understand our own place as strangers and migrants, to discover hidden gifts in neighbours, known and unknown.' * Canon Sarah Snyder, Archbishop of Canterbury's Adviser for Reconciliation *
This brilliant book addresses one of the most urgent questions of our time: how to welcome the strangers who come seeking a home with us. The authors face the challenge with realism, while showing what a source of blessing this may be for us all. * Timothy Radcliffe OP, Blackfriars, Oxford *
'This remarkable book is most timely, for it comes in the midst of an acute campaign of anti-neighbourliness. . . While the essays are intensely focused, the writers call attention to the thick complexity and multi-dimensioned practice of neighbourliness. These essays are richly suggestive of new openings for thought and action of a transformative kind.' * Professor Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary *
'This richly challenging and deeply engaging book merits careful consideration at a time when fear of the 'other' threatens to overwhelm us. In simple terms its theme is migration, but actually it's about being human.' * The Rt Revd Adrian Newman, Bishop of Stepney *
