Beyond Homelessness
by Bouma-Prediger, StevenFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-06-03
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Brian J. Walsh is a campus minister at the University of Toronto, and adjunct professor of theology of culture at Wycliffe College.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| There's No Place Like Home | p. 1 |
| A Culture of Displacement, Amnesia, and Homelessness | p. 7 |
| Which Memories, What Home? | p. 12 |
| Biblical Homecoming | p. 14 |
| Kenneth and Kenny Again | p. 28 |
| Biblical Interlude: Creation, Covenant, and the Homemaking God | p. 29 |
| The Meaning of Home | p. 38 |
| Categories of Displacement | p. 41 |
| The Problem of Boundaries | p. 46 |
| The Necessity of Boundaries | p. 51 |
| A Phenomenology of Home | p. 56 |
| The Ambivalence of Home | p. 66 |
| Biblical Interlude: Wine, Money, and the Homebreaking King | p. 68 |
| Socioeconomic Homelessness | p. 76 |
| The Streetcar Sped Away | p. 77 |
| Nobody's Child | p. 79 |
| Homelessness: A Socioethical Crisis | p. 82 |
| Why Socioeconomic Homelessness? A Structural Analysis | p. 92 |
| Homelessness: A Socioethical Crisis Revisited | p. 104 |
| Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery | p. 111 |
| Biblical Interlude: Architecture, Covenant, and Exile | p. 113 |
| From Housing to Homemaking | p. 121 |
| The Shape of Worldviews | p. 125 |
| Houses and Homes | p. 136 |
| Housing for Homemaking | p. 139 |
| Economics for Homemaking | p. 141 |
| Rights, Public Policy, and the Church | p. 145 |
| More than Bricks and Mortar | p. 151 |
| Biblical Interlude: Homemaking in the Ruins | p. 153 |
| Ecological Homelessness | p. 158 |
| The Plight of Planet Earth | p. 162 |
| Why Ecological Homelessness? A Sociocultural Analysis | p. 169 |
| The Home Planet: The Earth as Oikos | p. 184 |
| Biblical Interlude: Much Depends on Dinner | p. 190 |
| Shalom and the Character of Earthkeeping | p. 196 |
| The Biblical Vision of Shalom | p. 199 |
| The Virtues of Shalom | p. 208 |
| Practices of Earthkeepers | p. 224 |
| Christians as Aching Visionaries | p. 227 |
| Biblical Interlude: Wine, Bread, and the Homemaking King | p. 230 |
| Postmodern Homelessness | p. 239 |
| Double Homesickness "Over the Rainbow" | p. 242 |
| Homeless Home Constructors | p. 246 |
| Homelessness, Migrancy, and the Tourist Self | p. 249 |
| On the Road to Nowhere | p. 254 |
| Postmodern Migrants or Homeless Consumers? | p. 260 |
| Biblical Interlude: Homemaking in Empire | p. 264 |
| The Indwelling God and the Sojourning Community | p. 271 |
| The God of Love and Creation as Other | p. 274 |
| The God of Grace and Creation as Gift | p. 285 |
| The God of Goodness and Creation as Good | p. 289 |
| Christ-Followers as Sojourners | p. 294 |
| Homeward Bound | p. 303 |
| Biblical Interlude: The Great Homecoming | p. 305 |
| Redemptive Homecoming | p. 313 |
| Hope, Home, and Imagination | p. 315 |
| The Homemaking Father | p. 320 |
| Bibliography | p. 328 |
| Author Index | p. 347 |
| Subject Index | p. 351 |
| Scripture Index | p. 359 |
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