The Capacity to be Displaced: Resilience, Mission, and Inner Strength (Theology and Mission in World Christianity)

Sedmak, Clemens

Brill（2017/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004341838

Full Description

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.

Contents

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