Clown of the city
By: Stephan de Beer
Publisher: African Sun Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Stellenbosch]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781928480846; 9781928480853
Subjects: Church and social problems; Cities and towns; Urban Sociology; Study and teaching
Description: At opening this book, everything one has learned or thought about "urban ministry" is challenged, and changed. Stephan de Beer offers a fresh, exciting and thoroughly engaging approach. The title is enticing and playful, but the book is a serious grappling with the daunting realities of a shadowed, marginalised, urban life. It does not theorise or pontificate about a concept. The author is not a distant, neutral observer. He is an engaged minister to the people, a struggler in their struggles, prophet to the powerful. This book invites the reader to join the people of the cities under siege by failed policies, empty promises, and disastrous politics, in their struggles for meaningful life, and it makes a powerful, persuasive case. Stephan de Beer has offered us a great gift and a wonderful opportunity to think and hope anew, and differently, about the life, reality, and future of the city.[Review].
Notes: Also issued in electronic format.

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