Open friendship in a closed society : Mission Mississippi and a theology of friendship /

Peter Slade examines Mission Mississippi's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) and considers whether it can effectively address the issue of social justice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Slade, Peter, 1970-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Mission Mississippi (Organization) Church work with minorities > Mississippi. Race relations > Religious aspects > Christianity. Mississippi > Race relations. Pastorale des minorités > Mississippi. Relations raciales > Aspect religieux > Christianisme. Mississippi > Relations raciales. RELIGION > Christianity > History. Church work with minorities Race relations Race relations > Religious aspects > Christianity Mississippi Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Open and closed
Jürgen Moltmann and open friendship
James Wesley Silver and the closed society
Mission Mississippi
From rallies to meaningful relationships
Mission Mississippi's theologies of racial reconciliation
Open friendship and justice
Justice, Jackson, and the gospel of reconciliation
Lee Paris and First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi
Slavery, segregation, and the spirituality of the church
The spirituality of the closed church
Reconciliation 101 : opening friendship
A practice of open friendship
Prayer breakfasts
A lived theology of prayer and reconciliation.