Plough Quarterly No. 8: Who Is My Neighbor (Plough Quarterly, 8) - Softcover

Lohfink, Gerhard; Kermani, Navid; Uwimana, Denise; Lewis, C.S.; Foster, Richard J.; Stott, John; Klein, Laurie; Shigley, Neil; Yandell, Michael; Loftus, Matthew; Arnold, Eberhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874867622 ISBN 13: 9780874867626

Publisher: Plough Publishing House, 2016

Synopsis

From Jordan to Germany, the influx of refugees is straining goodwill to the breaking point. This issue of Plough Quarterly focuses on the second half of Jesus’ Great Commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself. We found love of neighbor demonstrated by Christians and Muslims in ISIS-controlled Syria, and by volunteers who continue to welcome refugees despite growing public hostility.

Here in election-year America, how do we as citizens live out love of neighbor in relation to immigrants? To the unborn threatened by abortion, and to their mothers? To prisoners, especially those held in solitary confinement for unconscionable terms and those on death row? To the victims of crime, and to the law enforcement officers charged with keeping the peace? To our youth, who are the ones most gravely harmed by our culture’s gender confusion?

On all these fronts and many others, love of neighbor makes claims on us. But shouldn’t it start within the fellowship of believers, the church? When this happens, we can bear one another’s burdens – for example, those of the soldier returning from war, or the coworker battling an addiction.

Perspectives from Navid Kermani, Neil Shigley, Denise Uwimana, Gerhard Lohfink, Michael Yandell, Teresa of Ávila, C.S. Lewis, John Stott, Matthew Loftus, Nathaniel Peters, Eberhard Arnold, Richard J. Foster, and Annemarie Wächter are sure to stimulate reflection and discussion. Then there’s new poetry by Laurie Klein, book reviews, a children’s story by Laura E. Richards, and world-class art by Dean Mitchell, Aristarkh Lentulov, Alex Vogel, Michael D. Fay, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Marc Chagall, Vasilij Ivanovic Surikov, and Sekino Jun’ichirō.

Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause with others.

About this title

Book Description:

This issue of Plough Quarterly offers some surprising answers to the question that was once put to Jesus: Who is my neighbor?

About the Author:

Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1898. He was a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Oxford and Cambridge universities who wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime, including "The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, " and "Mere Christianity". Lewis is arguably the most influential Christian writer of the twentieth century.

Richard J. Foster is the author of several bestselling books, including Celebration of Discipline, Streams of Living Water, Life with God, and Prayer, which was Christianity Today's Book of the Year and the winner of the Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He is the founder of Renovare, an organization and a movement committed to the renewal of the church of Jesus Christ in all its multifaceted expressions, and the editor of The Life with God Bible.

Laurie Klein is the on-staff artist for the education department of a local marine park. She earned her BS from Maryville College and has worked as a freelance artist for more than twenty-five years. In 2008, the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association awarded Klein the Outstanding Pennsylvania Author/Illustrator Award. The illustrator of eight previous books and a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Klein lives in St. Augustine, Florida.

Eberhard Arnold (1883 1935) studied theology, philosophy, and education and was widely sought as a speaker at student conferences and other gatherings. In 1920, leaving a promising career as a writer and the privileges of upper-middle- class life in Berlin, he moved with his wife and children to Sannerz, a small village in central Germany, where they founded a Christian community on the basis of the Sermon on the Mount.

Peter Mommsen is the editor of Plough Quarterly magazine. He lives in upstate New York with his wife Wilma and their three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plough Publishing House
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0874867622
• ISBN 13: 9780874867626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• Editor: Mommsen Peter