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1008243
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b762613
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| Main Entry
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Slade, Peter,1970-
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| Title & Author
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Open friendship in a closed society : : Mission Mississippi and a theology of friendship /\ Peter Slade.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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019537262X
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: 019970693X
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: 9780195372625
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: 9780199706938
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Open and closed -- Jürgen Moltmann and open friendship -- James Wesley Silver and the closed society -- Mission Mississippi -- From rallies to meaningful relationships -- Mission Mississippi's theologies of racial reconciliation -- Open friendship and justice -- Justice, Jackson, and the gospel of reconciliation -- Lee Paris and First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi -- Slavery, segregation, and the spirituality of the church -- The spirituality of the closed church -- Reconciliation 101 : opening friendship -- A practice of open friendship -- Prayer breakfasts -- A lived theology of prayer and reconciliation.
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| Abstract
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Peter Slade examines Mission Mississippi's model of racial reconciliation (which stresses one-on-one, individual friendships among religious people of different races) and considers whether it can effectively address the issue of social justice.
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Mission Mississippi (Organization)
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Mission Mississippi (Organization)
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Mission Mississippi (Organization)
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Church work with minorities-- Mississippi.
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Race relations-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
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Church work with minorities.
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Race relations-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
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Race relations.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- History.
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Mississippi, Race relations.
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Mississippi.
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| Dewey Classification
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277.62/083089
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BV4468.S53 2009eb
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