Practicing Our Faith A Way of Life for a Searching People

Name: Practicing Our Faith A Way of Life for a Searching People
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ISBN: 9780470484111

ISBN-10: 047048411X

ISBN-13: 9780470484111

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: Dorothy C. Bass

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Dorothy Bass' Practicing Our Faith book grew out of the Lilly Endowment funded Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People of Faith's work in exploring what it means not just to believe but to act upon one's faith. Over the past 11 years, it basically established an entirely new way of thinking about everyday practices such as hospitality, forgiveness, and keeping Sabbath that has been highly influential across a wide range of Christian laypeople, leaders, denominations, and study groups.In this second edition, Dorothy incorporates a reader/study guide into the back of the book, revises the concluding chapter, and adds an afterword on her meditations on the practices…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 1/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Dorothy C. Bass is director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith and editor of Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People.



New Preface for the Revised Edition


Preface to the 1997 Edition



Times of Yearning, Practices of Faith




Honoring the Body




Hospitality




Household Economics




Saying Yes and Saying No




Keeping Sabbath




Testimony




Discernment




Shaping Communities




Forgiveness




Healing




Dying Well




Singing Our Lives




Practicing a Way of Life




A Way of Thinking About a Way of Life



References


The Contributors


Suggestions for Conversation and Reflection


Index


Index of Scripture References