Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
This book goes far beyond covering the subject of homelessness as the social problem we all recognize in our cities. Mass emigrations, displaced families, and human alienation from the earth all mark our times. In critiquing contemporary North American culture, Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh discuss various forms of homelessness—socioeconomic, ecological, and psycho-spiritual—and creatively show how biblical attentiveness and Christian faith can heal the profound dislocations in our society.
Ending each of their chapters with a moving biblical meditation, the authors also interact throughout with characters and themes from current literature and popular culture—from Salman Rushdie to Barbara Kingsolver, from the Wizard of Oz to Bruce Cockburn.
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- Examines the biblical meaning of home
- Provides biblical meditations for each chapter
- Explores related themes of community, hope, and memory
- There’s No Place Like Home
- The Meaning of Home
- Socioeconomic Homelessness
- From Housing to Homemaking
- Ecological Homelessness
- Shalom and the Character of Earthkeeping
- Postmodern Homelessness
- The Indwelling God and the Sojourning Community
- Redemptive Homecoming
This volume provides a comprehensive vision, which unites society in a common problem, and a common solution.
—Religious Studies Review
This volume is a stunning feat of orchestration that defies the neat, tidy boundaries of genres and disciplines. . . . It is nothing short of a compressed, winsome articulation of the gospel. . . . The book is indispensable reading.
—Theological Studies
A work such as this has yet to be offered to the Christian community and it is time for the church to listen. . . . Beyond Homelessness is one of the most engaging, auspicious, and important texts to be published in the Christian community in a long, long time.
—Christian Scholar’s Review
- Title: Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement
- Authors: Brian J. Walsh and Steven Bouma-Prediger
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 2008
- Pages: 377
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Christianity and Culture
Brian J. Walsh is a campus minister at the University of Toronto, adjunct professor of theology of culture at Wycliffe College, and the coauthor of Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire.
Steven Bouma-Prediger is professor of religion at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, and the author of For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care.