Open friendship in a closed society
Subtitle: Mission Mississippi and a theology of friendship
By: Peter Slade.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195372625
Subjects: Mission Mississippi (Organization); Church work with minorities -- Mississippi; Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Mississippi -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Open and closed; title: Jürgen Moltmann and open friendship; title: James Wesley Silver and the closed society; title: Mission Mississippi : from rallies to meaningful relationships; title: Mission Mississippi's theology of racial reconciliation; title: Open friendship and justice; title: Justice : Jackson and the gospel of reconciliation; title: Lee Paris and First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi; title: Slavery, segregation, and the spirituality of the church; title: The spirituality of the closed church; title: Reconciliation 101 : opening friendship; title: Prayer breakfasts as a practice of open friendship.