Following Jesus as Pilgrims, Servants and Prophets in the Twenty First Century: Letters to My Grandchildren

In this book Michael P. Hornsby-Smith aims to encourage a commitment to the pursuit of social justice on the part of young people of Generation Y, i.e. six-formers, students, and young people generally. It has been written as a series of letters to my grandchildren with the intention of encouraging them and others of their generation to follow Jesus as faithful pilgrims, conscientious servants, and challenging prophets. It follows the well-known pastoral strategy with two chapters each on (a) articulating the social reality both domestically and globally, (b) subjecting it to social analysis as to causes of needs and injustices, then to (c) scriptural and theological analysis, and finally (d) offering suggestions for responding with social action.

Michael P. Hornsby-Smith is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey and was awarded an Honorary D.Th by Heythrop College, University of London. He is the author, co-author or editor of ten books, mainly dealing with the social and religious transformations of English Catholicism since the Second World War and the Second Vatican Council. He held senior positions in the International Society for the Sociology of Religion and has long been active in the Justice and Peace Movement.