Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047048411X ISBN 13: 9780470484111

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2010

Synopsis

An updated edition of the down-to-earth resource that offers twelve practices to make Christian faith a way of life

Many Christians are looking for ways to deepen their relationship with God by practicing their faith in everyday life. This best-selling guide helps take belief out of the realm of theory and shows how to live it out in a series of twelve central practices such as hospitality, forgiveness, healing, testimony, and keeping Sabbath. Designed to work across a wide range of Christian laypeople, leaders, denominations, and study groups, this is the second edition of the book that Theology called "... a stimulating contribution to the work of making explicit the connection between what Christians do and what they believe."

• Contains information on the practices discussed in the book and shows how they relate to and intersect with prayer, worship, and Bible study
• Offers a guide for conversation, learning, and growth at the back of the book
• This updated and expanded new edition includes a new introduction and two additional chapters that describes new insights into and experiences with the "practicing our faith" approach

The book includes a variety of prominent contributors, who draw on their rich shared experience as believers, theologians, ethicists, and educators.

About this title

About the Author

THE EDITOR

DOROTHY C. BASS is a writer, noted church historian, and director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith.

Visit www.practicingourfaith.org for more information and resources on the Practices of Faith.

From the Back Cover

Praise for the Second Edition of Practicing Our Faith

"Practicing Our Faith is more than a book; it outlines a movement—God's movement—that is both as old as Abraham and as new as today's emerging Christianity. Here is a way to live the abundant life that is good news for our neighbors, sweet rest for our souls, and hope for a church too long fragmented by division. Like the preachers of the last great awakening, I want to shout, 'Get on board!'"
—Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, new monastic, author, speaker (www.jonathanwilsonhartgrove.com)

Praise for the First Edition of Practicing Our Faith

"Deceptively simple and down-to-earth, these authors provide potent surprises. Dorothy Bass's observation that 'slaves cannot take a day off but free people can' startled me into a new comprehension of the workaholism that permeates American culture. Practicing Our Faith strikes me as a book as wise as grandparents, a good guide to living within our families and communities with integrity and generosity."
—Kathleen Norris, author of The Cloister Walk and Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

"Practicing Our Faith is a book written by a remarkable community of people—remarkable not only because it includes some of the most insightful Christian voices of our time, but because its members prayed and talked and worked together to create this volume, modeling the way the church is meant to do its work. . . . Practicing Our Faith is a book that should be widely read, and more: it should be put into action."
—Parker Palmer, author of A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, and The Courage to Teach

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047048411X
• ISBN 13: 9780470484111
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Bass Dorothy C.