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Part 2: Life in Christian Communities
These books describe the practices followed in some actual communities of faith. Bonhoeffer’s enduring little classic, Life Together, tells of communal life in an underground seminary at Finkenwalde, Germany, during World War II. Books by Larry Crabb and William Willimon examine the potential support local churches can offer their members as communities of faith—Crabb from a general Christian viewpoint, Willimon from a specifically Methodist perspective. Henri Nouwen and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove speak of their experiences with intentional Christian communities—Nouwen from living in the L’Arche Daybreak community with intellectually disabled adults in Toronto and Wilson-Hartgrove from working with a variety of communities coming out the New Monastic movement in America.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Life Together, Harper, 1954.
Crabb, Lawrence. The Safest Place on Earth: Where People Connect and Are Forever Changed, Word, 1999. (Republished as Becoming a True Spiritual Community: A Profound Vision of What the Church Can Be, Thomas Nelson, 2007.)
Nouwen, Henri. The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey, Doubleday, 1988.
Willimon, William H., Why I Am a United Methodist, Abingdon Press, 1990.
Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan. New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today’s Church, Brazos Press, 2008.
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13 October 2009 at 5:52 pm
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