Compassion as a Subversive Activity (Paperback)

David Urion

ISBN 10: 1561012793 / ISBN 13: 9781561012794

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Blue Ridge Summit, 2006

Beschreibung

Paperback. To Dr. David Urions question, How can I help you? the father of the young boy with autism responded in a small voice that choked back some tears, Be with us. Keep us company. This is so lonely. This book is part of Dr. Urions attempt to keep his promise, a promise which in fact we all made to this family and to many families on the day of their childs baptism. Baptism by baptism, in each of our faith communities, we vow to do everything in our power to support them in their life in God. Urion beckons us to contemplate the miraculous healings in the Gospel of Mark as subversive political acts of power that provide examples of restoring the integrity and the wholeness of the community, not just for the persons who are overtly healed but for the community as well. The tales of power he invites us to consider in this book reflect upon the extraordinary and paradoxical power of the powerless. Contemplates the miraculous healings in the "Gospel of Mark" as subversive political acts of power that restore the wholeness of the community. The kingdom of God that is at hand is just this: the poor, the sick, the outcast. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781561012794

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Titel: Compassion as a Subversive Activity (...

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Blue Ridge Summit

Erscheinungsdatum: 2006

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe:

David Urion, a pediatric neurologist, contemplates the miraculous healings in the Gospel of Mark as subversive political acts of power that restore the wholeness of the community. The kingdom of God that is at hand is just this: the poor, the sick, the outcaste. Their integration into the community restores creation to the radical inclusiveness with which it began and that heals us all.

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David K. Urion M.D., is a pediatric neurologist who has served as director of the Behavioral Neurology/Learning Disabilities Program at Children's Hospital Boston for the past twenty years. He is a parishioner at St. Anne's-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln, MA, has written for Forward Day by Day, and preaches in the Diocese of Massachusetts from time to time.