A Presence That Disturbs: A Call to Radical Discipleship

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This powerful, moving, and "disturbing" book looks at the contemporary issues that block the attainment of a revitalized Church—a Church united rather than fragmented, a Church tuned to justice for all rather than to provincial myopia. A Presence That Disturbs will engage the general reader and the specialist alike with a fresh perspective on what it means to follow Christ.

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Overview

This powerful, moving, and "disturbing" book looks at the contemporary issues that block the attainment of a revitalized Church—a Church united rather than fragmented, a Church tuned to justice for all rather than to provincial myopia. A Presence That Disturbs will engage the general reader and the specialist alike with a fresh perspective on what it means to follow Christ.

192-page paperback; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764808487
  • Publisher: Liguori Publications
  • Publication date: 2/19/2002
  • Edition description: 1ST
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 637,958
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Anthony J. Gittins, CSSp, is in his twenty-fourth year at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and is currently professor of mission and culture. Born in Manchester, England, he earned an MA and PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has taught and worked in some thirty-five countries. His pastoral outreach includes ministry in cultures from Africa to the Pacific, and work with Chicago's disenfranchised, especially homeless women. He is the author of fifteen books and numerous articles. Father Gittins also lectures and leads retreats nationally and internationally. He continues his anthropological work by spending periods of time in local churches, especially in Africa and the Central Pacific, working on inculturation by bringing learnings from cultural anthropology and theology together. His commitment to homeless women in Chicago, whose stories he told in Where There's Hope, There's Life: Women's Stories of Homelessness and Survival, is ongoing.

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Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Introduction xv
Chapter 1 Searching for Meaning, Renewing Discipleship 1
Chapter 2 The Holy Spirit: Advocate, Comforter, Life-Giver 23
Chapter 3 Imagination, Encounter, Ministry 43
Chapter 4 Community, Communitas, and Downward Mobility 69
Chapter 5 The Disturbing Ministry of Jesus 91
Chapter 6 Mentors and Midwives, Images of Discipleship 119
Chapter 7 Strangers in the Spirit of Jesus 143
Afterword 163
Notes 165
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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 28, 2004

    Best book I have picked up in a long time!

    As a Religious Studies student, I read a lot of books on my own time and for classes. This is, by far, the best book I have read in a while. Gittens calls us to continually look for ways that we are failing to live out the Christian Life and constantly challenges us to change.

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