A Kind of Upside-Downness (eBook, ePUB)

Learning Disabilities and Transformational Community
Redaktion: Ford, David; Randall, Ian; Ford, Deborah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the great prophetic figures of our time was Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, where those with and without disabilities share life together. This book tells the story of a new, practical development, inspired by Vanier, and taking further both his thought and the practice of L'Arche. Lyn's House is a small Christian house of hospitality and friendship in Cambridge, set in an open community of volunteers and supporters. Its story told here contains moving accounts of its origins and development, and of the friendships it enables. The contributors, all members of the wider Lyn's House community, also reflect on its meaning, and explore the implications for both church and society of this creative response to Vanier's call. Not only does the book convey the spirit of Lyn's House and its transformative effects on those who participate in it, it also offers inspiration and a practical guide to any who wish to begin something similar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787751392
• Artikelnr.: 57106790

Autorenporträt

Edited by David F. Ford, Deborah Hardy-Ford and Ian Randall. Foreword by Frances Young.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part 1: Called into Community. Chapter 1: Jean Vanier and a
Community in Cambridge, Deborah Hardy Ford (St Andrew's Cherry Hinton)
Chapter 2: Sharing in Community, Judith Gardom (University of Cambridge)
Chapter 3: Living in Community that Embraces Others, E.S. Kempson
(University of Cambridge) Part 2: A Wisdom of Community. Chapter 4:Building
Community Beyond Us and Them, Daniel Smith (University of Cambridge)
Chapter 5: Wisdom's Call, Suzanna R. Millar (University of Edinburgh)
Chapter 6: The Spirit speaks to the church: Shabbat Wisdom, Deborah Hardy
Ford (St Andrew's Cherry Hinton) Part 3: Discerning Community Today.
Chapter 7: Community as a Sign of Hope, Philip S. Powell (Jubilee Centre)
and Ian M. Randall (Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide) Chapter 8:
Experiments in Friendship, Patrick McKearney (University of Cambridge)
Chapter 9: Why L'Arche? Why Lyn's House? What next?, Theresia Paquet and
David Ford (University of Cambridge) Bibliography