| Description |
viii, 187 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Prisms. |
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Prisms.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Solidarity with the homeless -- Homelessness and housing in the United States -- Dominant ideologies on housing and homelessness -- Rescue and recovery response -- Low-income homeownership response -- Prophetic-disruption assessment and response -- A home for all in God's just and compassionate community. |
| Summary |
"Disrupting Homelessness unmasks the futile assumptions of our present approaches to homelessness and suggests ways in which Christians and Christian communities can create a prophetic social movement to end poverty and homelessness. The American dream, as conveyed by the media, includes owning a home. Increasingly, people are homeless or precariously housed because of joblessness, foreclosure, or dislocation. Ecclesial responses to homelessness and housing vary. Some Christian organizations focus on fixing the person and the behaviors that contribute to homelessness. Others promote home ownership for low income households. Employing disruptive Christian ethics, Laura Stivers criticizes both approaches, outlines an advocacy approach for churches to address the multiple causes of homelessness, and calls us to make a home for all in God's just and compassionate community" -- Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Church work with the homeless.
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Church and social problems.
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| ISBN |
9780800697976 alkaline paper |
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0800697979 alkaline paper |
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