Burning Center, Porous Borders by Eleazar S Fernandez

Burning Center, Porous Borders by Eleazar S Fernandez

Burning Center, Porous Borders articulates what the church is and is called to be about in the world, a world now globalized to the point that the local is lived globally and the global is lived locally. The church must respond creatively and prophetically to the challenges-economic disparity, war and terrorism, diaspora, ecological threat, health crisis, religious diversity, and so on-posed by our highly globalized world. It can do so only if the church's spiritual center burns mightily. Conversely, it can burn mightily in the spirit of Christ only if its borders are porous and allows the fresh air/spirit of change to blow in and out. While there is much rhetoric about change, the most common response to change is to continue doing business as usual. This is particularly the case in the face of perceived global threats. In spite of the hoopla and euphoria of the global village, walls of division and exclusion are rising, hearts are constricting, and moral imagination shrinking. In response to this context, Burning Center, Porous Borders proposes alternative ways or images of being a church: burning center and porous borders, wall-buster and bridge-builder, translocal (glocal), mending-healer, radical hospitality, community of the earth-spirit, household of life abundant, dialogians of life, and community of hope. In Burning Center, Porous Borders congregational vitality and progressive praxis kiss and embrace

Fernandez, Eleazar S.: - Eleazar S. Fernandez is Professor of Constructive Theology at United Theological Seminary in the Twin Cities and President of Union Theological Seminary of the Philippines. He has edited or authored a number of books, including Burning Center, Porous Borders (Wipf & Stock, 2011), Teaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World (editor, Cascade, 2014), and Teaching for a Multifaith World (editor, Pickwick, 2017).

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ISBN 13	9781610974264
ISBN 10	1610974263
Title	Burning Center, Porous Borders
Author	Eleazar S Fernandez
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Microfilm
Publisher	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Year published	2011-10-01
Number of pages	398
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