Educating for Redemptive Community

Essays in Honor of Jack Seymour and Margaret Ann Crain

Denise Janssen, Janssen

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781498208161
  9781498208185
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498208178
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

Jesus made claims about redemptive community throughout his ministry when he called people to extravagant grace. Even in the midst of the oppression of his day, Jesus preached and taught that redemptive community was possible if his followers would simply stop hoarding, hiding, and excluding. What a prophetic word for today in the midst of modern day oppression and fears of scarcity! In this edited volume, in honor of religious education scholars Jack Seymour and Margaret Ann Crain, eight of their PhD advisees--each scholars in their own right--join Seymour and Crain to lay out their vision of redemptive community. Rooted in their own scholarship, each contributor proposes ways in which Jesus' vision of redemptive community can become reality in churches and congregations, and in our larger world. In addition to essays by Jack Seymour and Margaret Ann Crain, scholars contributing to this volume include Dori Grinenko Baker, Reginald Blount, Evelyn L. Parker, Mai-Anh Le Tran, Leah Gunning Francis, Carmichael Crutchfield, Debora B.A. Junker, and Denise Janssen. The foreword by Mary Elizabeth Moore and afterword by Seymour and Crain set the volume in the larger context of the church and academy.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword: A Gift of Redemptive Love
• Contributors
• Introduction: Through the Lens of an Ethnographer by Margaret Ann Crain
• 1. Pay Attention by Jack L. Seymour
• 2. Moseses, Miriams, and Monarch Migrations by Dori Grinenko Baker
• 3. Beyond Band-Aids and Bootstraps by Leah Gunning Francis
• 4. From Sabbath Schools to Freedom Schools by Reginald Blount
• 5. Embodied Redemption by Debora B. A. Junker
• 6. Communicability, Redeemability, Educability by Mai-Anh Le Tran
• 7. A Pedagogy of Redemption with Incarcerated Girls by Evelyn L. Parker
• 8. Identity and Leadership Formation in Process in African American Adolescent Boys by Carmichael Crutchfield
• 9. Redemptive Community Across Generations by Denise Janssen
• Afterword: Paying Attention and Pointing Forward by Margaret Ann Crain & Jack Seymour