On the Edge of Mystery
Towards a Spiritual Hermeneutic of the Urban Margins
- Editore:
Lang, Peter
- Collana:
- Religions and Discourse
- EAN:
9783906758800
- ISBN:
390675880X
- Pagine:
- 256
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione On the Edge of Mystery
Drawing on the author's experience with marginalised groups and individuals, this book makes important connections between belief and secular life from a discourse perspective. In doing so, it explores two key questions: is it possible to have a shared spirituality on the urban margins; and what factors might assist in this deep encounter? The empirical focus is on a community living and working on an urban housing estate exploring a lived spirituality. A challenge is presented to the life of the church. Suggestions are made for ministerial formation in the light of this challenge, particularly re-engaging with the spiritual tradition and learning from those on the urban margins. A contemporary spiritual hermeneutic gradually unfolds which has the potential of a dynamic life-giving force within the church at the beginning of the twenty-first century.