Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
Although hospitality was central to Christian identity and practice in earlier centuries, our generation knows little about its life-giving character. Making Room revisits the Christian foundations of welcoming strangers and explores the necessity, difficulty, and blessing of hospitality...
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Although hospitality was central to Christian identity and practice in earlier centuries, our generation knows little about its life-giving character. Making Room revisits the Christian foundations of welcoming strangers and explores the necessity, difficulty, and blessing of hospitality today.Combining rich biblical and historical research with extensive exposure to contemporary Christian communities—the Catholic Worker, L'Abri, L'Arche, and others— this book shows how understanding the key features of hospitality can better equip us to faithfully carry out the practical call of the gospel.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802844316 (0802844316)
Pages no: 218
Edition language: English
High quality work from one of my favorite professors! Dr. Pohl's mission in this book is to help recover the idea and language of hospitality in the Church today. She reveals that hospitality is less about entertaining people and more about "making room" in ourselves for others. It is "simply love i...
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