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Becoming Friends: Worship, Justice, and the Practice of Christian Friendship

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How do Christians understand friendship and intimacy? How does worship form Christians into a community of the friends of God? What virtues does God call us to incorporate into our lives? In Becoming Friends, Paul Wadell explores the connections between worship, justice, friendship, and the life we are called to live.

This engaging and accessible book offers a fresh viewpoint from which to explore the nature of Christian friendship. Such friendship, Wadell contends, is more than a bonding of people with similar interests, a "ritual of hopeless consolation." True Christian friendship summons us to love all of our neighbors. Wadell examines obstacles to and characteristics of true friendship and, drawing from the works of Augustine, Aelred of Rievaulx, and other Christian exemplars, contends that we are called to serve God through friendship and that this calling requires us to cultivate certain virtues--especially hope, justice, and forgiveness.

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241.6762

Publisher

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA : Brazos Press., 2002

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Softcover; 186 hlm.; 14.83 x 21.95 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781587430510 / 1587430517

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241.6762

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Edition

1

Subject(s)

Christian Practice & Observance
Religion & Spirituality
Nonfiction
Christian Ethics of Friendship
Christian Ministry: Discipleship

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