The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor - Couverture souple

Bessenecker, Scott A

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0830836012 ISBN 13 : 9780830836017

Editeur : IVP, 2006

Synopsis

• Finalist, Fourth Annual Outreach Resource of the Year (2006)

Vows--exclusive promises or commitments--are almost unheard of these days. They're considered a quaint relic of times past when open options were not such highly regarded virtues. But many people in this commitment-averse culture are begging for someone to set the bar higher, to call them to higher levels of devotion.

Across the ages God has consistently attracted a few in every crowd who would make and keep vows, and called them to stick out, act out and speak out.

In The New Friars Scott Bessenecker profiles young Christians who have voluntarily removed themselves from the status quo in order to seek justice and mercy with the poorest of the world's poor. These new friars are carrying on the work of the monastic tradition, the spirit of Francis and Clare of Assisi, St. Patrick and St. Brigid, the Jesuits and Nestorians and Moravians.

The New Friars will show you that with God all things--even uncommon acts of courageous faith--are possible.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Scott Bessenecker is associate director for missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and author of several books, including The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World´s Poor. He sends more than two thousand students each year on short-term mission experiences in a number of urban poor locations around the world. Scott's blog, The Least of These, is at urbana.org/blogs/least-these.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: IVP
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0830836012
• ISBN 13: 9780830836017
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 199
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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