Calling for "a reintegration of soul and society, prayer and politics," Kenneth Leech argues brilliantly and passionately for the essential unity of Christian spirituality and social and political commitment. Leech warns that spirituality without community "can be a dangerous diversion from the living God." "If we are to rescue Christian spirituality from its captivity to individualism and the culture of false inwardness, we will need to recover the sense of its social character, indeed, the sense of the social order of the Gospel itself." Here is a biblically rooted spirituality of matter and of sexuality. "The disgust at sexuality," writes Leech, "or at least the uncertainty about whether Christianity really approves of it, is linked with the retreat from political involvement.... Both the flesh and the polis are seen as equally threatening, equally contaminating, to the purity of the soul" that seeks to know and follow God in pursuit of justice for all people. To be truly Christian, the author argues, is to embrace the struggle against racism and all other forms of oppression, the movement for world peace and nuclear disarmament, and the campaign against poverty, inequality, and drug addiction. "At its very heart the Christian life and identity is a process of incorporation into a new social organism, a new community," writes Leech. "Spirituality cannot exist apart from this social context."

The Eye of the Storm: Living Spiritually in the Real World

Religion & Spirituality

Leech, Kenneth

Christian Books & Bibles

Harpercollins

Experiencing God: Theology As Spirituality

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Soul Friend: An Invitation to Spiritual Direction

Harper-San Francisco

A book about thee practice of Christian Spirituality

Soul Friend: The Practice of Christian Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Harper&Row

Examines the nature of prayer, what it accomplishes, and why the average Christian should regularly practice it

True Prayer: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality

Examines the nature of prayer, what it accomplishes, and why the average Christian should regularly practice it

Worship & Devotion

Care and Conflict: Leaves from a Pastoral Notebook

Darton,Longman & Todd

Considers the pharmacology of drug use, the drugs involved and the social and cultural perspective of drug-taking.

Drugs and Pastoral Care

Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd.

A powerful analysis of the current and future state of religion, politics and human society.

The Sky Is Red: Discerning the Signs of the Times

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

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