{"product_id":"towards-friendship-shaped-communities-isbn-9781119756941","title":"Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA unique and incisive exploration of the place and nature of friendship in both its personal and civic dimensions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTowards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e, distinguished theological researcher Anne-Marie Ellithorpe delivers a constructive and insightful exploration of the place and nature of friendship as innate to being human, to the human vocation, and to life within the broader community. Of particular interest to members and leaders of faith communities, this book responds to contemporary concerns regarding relationality and offers a comprehensive theology of friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author provides an inclusive and interdisciplinary study that brings previous traditions and texts into dialogue with contemporary contexts and concerns, including examples from Indigenous and Euro-Western cultures. Readers will reflect on the theology of friendship and the interrelationship between friendship and community, think critically about their own social and theological imagination, and develop an integrative approach to theological reflection that draws on Don Browning’s \u003ci\u003eFundamental Practical Theology\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegrating philosophical, anthropological, and theological perspectives on the study of friendship, this book presents:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA thorough introduction to contemporary questions on friendship and discussions of co-existing friendship worlds\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eComprehensive explorations of friendship in first and second testament writings, as well as friendship within classical and Christian traditions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePractical discussions of theology, friendship, and the social imagination, including explorations of mutuality and spirit-shaped friendships\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiderations for outworking friendship ideals within communities of practice, from the perspective of strategic (or fully) practical theology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerfect for graduate and advanced undergraduate students taking courses on friendship or practical theology, \u003ci\u003eTowards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship \u003c\/i\u003ewill also earn a place in the libraries of scholars of practical theology and community practitioners, including ministers, priests, pastors, spiritual advisors, and counselors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Current Reality 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Place of Friendship 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Coexisting Friendship Worlds 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II A Deep Remembering – Friendship, Community, Resistance 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Friendship and First Testament Writings 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Friendship and Second Testament Writings 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Friendship in Classical and Christian Traditions 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBridge: Shifts in Vision 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Theology, Friendship, and the Social Imagination 137\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Mutuality: God, Creation and Community 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Open Friendship, Becoming Kin, and the Human Vocation 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Love, Spirit-Shaped Friendships, and Friendship-Shaped Communities 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Practicing Friendship 195\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Friendship and Community: Ideals and Implementation 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: A Correlational Approach to Theological Reflection 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne-Marie Ellithorpe\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Associate at the Vancouver School of Theology. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eVisions of the End Times: Revelations of Hope and Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e, Co-Chair of the AAR seminar unit Religious Reflections on Friendship, and a member of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the International Academy of Practical Theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Rather than seeing friendship as a comforting refuge from society, Anne-Marie Ellithorpe uncovers its power for creating a truly just world in which all can flourish.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003ePaul J. Wadell,\u003c\/b\u003e Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies, St. Norbert College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Informed by social-contextual-historical realities, this timely examination of an embodied practice invites readers to consider possibilities that might emerge from mutually just relationships.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Angela D. Sims, \u003c\/b\u003ePresident of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A timely and comprehensive call to expansive, tenacious, and Spirit-woven friendship as key to the imago Dei and to repairing the frayed fabric of post-colonial contexts.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Karen Kemp,\u003c\/b\u003e Dean Tikanga Pâkehâ, St John's College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTowards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers an insightful and authoritative exploration of the nature of friendship. It acknowledges the formative and transformative potential of both personal and civic dimensions of friendship, and contains analysis relevant to diverse faith communities and groups open to imagining a future shaped by friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book discusses contemporary concerns regarding relationality and introduces a comprehensive theology of friendship, where classic texts and traditions are explored along with more recent treatments of the subject, bringing the old into conversation with the new. This interdisciplinary work presents an integration of philosophical, anthropological, and theological perspectives on the study of friendship. In its four parts—Descriptive, Normative, Systematic, and Strategic—it includes examples from Indigenous cultures alongside Western perspectives. Unique and incisive, this volume is an excellent tool for readers wishing to examine the interrelationship between friendship and community and to reflect critically on their own social and theological imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTowards Friendship-Shaped Communities\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as seminary students studying friendship, ethics, or theology. This distinctly original work is also an ideal selection for scholars of practical theology as well as for community faith practitioners, including ministers, priests, pastors, and spiritual advisors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990399041765,"sku":"NP9781119756941","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119756941.jpg?v=1761787672","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/towards-friendship-shaped-communities-isbn-9781119756941","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}