The Capacity to Be Displaced: Resilience, Mission, and Inner Strength

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34183-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 377 g

Reihe: Theology and Mission in World Christianity

The experience of displacement is shared by people who work internationally. The capacity to be displaced is a necessary strength and skill for people working across cultures, particularly for missionaries. In order to deal with the stressful nature of displacement people need to be resilient, resilience makes people flourish in adverse circumstances. This volume presents a specific type of resilience, namely “resilience nourished by inner sources.” Cultivating inner resilience draws on all the facets of a person’s interior life: thoughts and memories, hopes and desires, beliefs and convictions, concerns and emotions. The notion of inner strength and resilience from within is developed using many examples from missionaries and development workers as well as case studies from all over the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sedmak, Clemens

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: The Capacity to be Displaced

Chapter 2: The Discourse on Resilience

Chapter 3: Testimonies of Epistemic Resilience in Situations of Displacement

Chapter 4: Structures of Inner Being

Chapter 5: Strengthening Powers of Resilience: Voices from the Philokalia

Chapter 6: Cultivating Interiority: Thinking and Therapeutic Arguments

Chapter 7: Resources of Epistemic Resilience: Existential Commitments

Chapter 8: Hope and Love: Epistemic Resilience and “Magis”

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clemens Sedmak holds the F.D. Maurice Chair in Moral and Social Theology at King’s College London. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame working in the area of Social Ethics.