Beyond homelessness : Christian faith in a culture of displacement /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bouma-Prediger, Steven
Other Authors: Walsh, Brian J., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • There's no place like home
  • A culture of displacement, amnesia, and homelessness
  • Which memories, what home?
  • Biblical homecoming
  • Kenneth and Kenny again
  • The meaning of home
  • Categories of displacement
  • The problem of boundaries
  • The necessity of boundaries
  • A phenomenology of home
  • The ambivalence of home
  • Socioeconomic homelessness
  • The streetcar sped away
  • Nobody's child
  • Homelessness : a socioethical crisis
  • Why socioeconomic homelessness? : a structural analysis
  • Homelessness : a socioethical crisis revisited
  • Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
  • From housing to homemaking
  • The shape of worldviews
  • Houses and homes
  • Housing for homemaking
  • Economics for homemaking
  • Rights, public policy, and the church
  • More than bricks and mortar
  • Ecological homelessness
  • The plight of planet earth
  • Why ecological homelessness? : a sociocultural analysis
  • The home planet : the earth as oikos
  • Shalom and the character of earthkeeping
  • The biblical vision of Shalom
  • The virtues of Shalom
  • Practices of earthkeepers
  • Christians as aching visionaries
  • Postmodern homelessness
  • Double homesickness "over the rainbow"
  • Homeless home constructors
  • Homelessness, migrancy, and the tourist self
  • On the road to nowhere
  • Postmodern migrants or homeless consumers?
  • The indwelling God and the sojourning community
  • The God of love and creation as other
  • The God of grace and creation as gift
  • The God of goodness and creation as good
  • Christ-followers as sojourners
  • Homeward bound
  • Redemptive homecoming
  • Hope, home, and imagination
  • The homemaking father.