The Good News about Conflict: Transforming Religious Struggle over Sexuality

by Jenell Paris, C. Douglas McConnell (Foreword by)

Overview

Conflict over homosexuality in Christian churches is only intensifying. We can do better. We have to do better. The stakes are too high to do otherwise. Conflicts are difficult and ugly, but the good news reaches even here. It is possible to have healthy conflict, to disagree and struggle together in ways that make us better and that make the church stronger. By looking deeply into the nature of religious conflict, we can cultivate practices and values that will mature our abilities as peacemakers, and strengthen our faith and our churches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498280983
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	07/01/2016
Series:	Integration Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	118
File size:	562 KB

About the Author

Jenell Paris is Professor of Anthropology at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. She is author of The End of Sexual Identity (2011).

Table of Contents

About the Series ix

Foreword Doug McConnell xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

1 Beginning 1

2 Conflicting 28

3 Leading 58

Bibliography 89