IVP's New Resources for Reconciliation Series
Posted by tom | Oct 22, 2008
As part of the InterVarsity Press (IVP) Staff Advisory Team, I have a little bit of an insider track on future material from IVP. Recently I found out that InterVarsity staff will soon receive copies of Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing by Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice. Note: some of you will remember Rice's IVP classic More Than Equals, co-authored with Spencer Perkins.
Reconciling All Things begins a powerful series entitled Resources for Reconciliation. I hear that the second book in the series, Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness by Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier is AMAZING. As such, I'd encourage readers of the blog to consider taking a look at the material and if you read it before I do, let me know your thoughts. ... Below is a section from the series introduction, a good word. By God's grace, may the people of God rooted in the Word and Spirit journey in the direction of re-creation through greater Christ-likeness. For more, go here.
The series seeks to offer a fresh and distinctive vision for reconciliation as God’s mission and a journey toward God’s new creation in Christ. Each book is authored by two leading voices, one in the field of practice or grassroots experience, the other from the academy. Each book is grounded in the biblical story, engages stories and places of pain and hope, and seeks to help readers to live faithfully — a rich mix of theology, context and practice. This book series was born out of the mission of the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation: Advancing God’s mission of reconciliation in a divided world by cultivating new leaders, communicating wisdom and hope, and connecting in outreach to strengthen leadership. A divided world needs people with the vision, spiritual maturity and daily skills integral to reconciliation. The church needs fresh resources — a mix of biblical vision, skills in social and historical analysis, and practical gifts of spirituality and social leadership — in order to pursue reconciliation in real places, from congregations to communities.
The ministry of reconciliation is not reserved for experts. It is the core of God’s mission and an everyday call of the Christian life. These books are written to equip and stimulate God’s people to be more faithful ambassadors of reconciliation in a fractured world.
For more information, email the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation at reconciliation@div.duke.edu, or visit our website.
