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Becoming Friends
Worship, Justice, and the Practice of Christian Friendship
- 186 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
Becoming Friends offers a provocative look into the nature and importance of true Christian friendship. Anyone looking to reflect on the indispensable role of good friendships in the Christian life will find this a hopeful and encouraging book.
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.
Becoming Friends offers a provocative look into the nature and importance of true Christian friendship. Anyone looking to reflect on the indispensable role of good friendships in the Christian life will find this a hopeful and encouraging book.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Worshiping Dangerously: The Risky Business of Becoming Friends of God
- 2. Exploring the Mysteries of Intimacy: What Hinders and What Helps the Friendships of Our Lives
- 3. Why There Are Some Debts We Can Never Repay: The Good Things Good Friends Do for Us
- 4. Confronting the Riddles of Intimacy: Augustine on Friendship in the Christian Life
- 5. What Medieval Monks Can Do for Us: Aelred of Rievaulx and the Life of Spiritual Friendship
- 6. Astounding Them by Our Way of Life: What Friends of God Can Offer the World
- 7. Setting the World on Fire: Friendship with God and a Commitment to Justice
- 8. Not Letting Hurt Have the Final Word: Friendship and the Practice of Forgiveness
- Notes