Practicing the Kingdom
Essays on Hospitality, Community, and Friendship in Honor of Christine D. Pohl
- Christian Living
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Throughout her academic career, Christine D. Pohl has helped the church rediscover practices that used to be central to its life, like hospitality, community, and friendship. Perhaps best known for her groundbreaking Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, she has also contributed significantly to discussions on Christian community, feminism and the academy, and the practice of friendship. Yet behind this lies a lifetime of "lived theology" that informs her life and her work, both inside and outside the academy. Containing biblical, systematic, and moral theology, these essays are scriptural and liturgical, multidisciplinary and missional. Several of them could be described as offering essays of "lived theology," writing and reflecting from within years of action and contemplation. They build upon particularly fruitful aspects of Pohl's work, through expansion, clarification, and occasional disagreement. A mix of scholars and practitioners, colleagues, former students, and friends, the contributors represent a wide variety of theoretical and practical expertise. This volume honors Pohl most when its readers choose to take the wisdom within its pages and embody that in life together.
Endorsements (4)
“Christine Pohl’s scholarship is a gift to the church, and this celebration of her life and work is a delight. May it inspire many to live into their vocation as she has.”
“Rooted in her seminal work in Christian hospitality, friendship, and community, these splendid essays by former students, colleagues, and friends are a fitting tribute to the profound influence Christine Pohl has had on so many. Above all, they are a testimony to a life in Christ well lived. For no one has embodied what they have believed and taught more graciously and winsomely than Christine.”
“Practicing the Kingdom does more than honor Christine Pohl, a person worth imitating. In these essays, one is reminded of the urgency of the challenge each generation of Christians has to live lives that provide a glimpse of the reign of God in a culture desperate for hope, honesty, and hospitality. . . . Those who read this book will be challenged to embody the biblical ideas of community that are a preview of the kingdom of God.”
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