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Learning to See
Richard Christensen
其他書名
A Memoir of Southern Africa
出版Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022-03-03
主題Religion / Christian Ministry / MissionsSocial Science / DiscriminationBiography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN16667314479781666731446
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YGBiEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Teaching in the southern African nation of Botswana in the early 1980s, Richard Christensen faced a new world, one endlessly fascinating and challenging. Experiencing warm hospitality from many people, sharing both joyful celebrations and painful struggles with students, he and his family encountered a deeper sense of the true meaning of community. Travel in apartheid South Africa and war-weary Zimbabwe gave him a fuller understanding of the reality of oppression and how people of faith endured their plight and kept hope alive. In this experience, so surprising in many ways, he came to a deepened realization of the genuine freedom of the gospel and the hope it affords us. He saw that relationships are what save us, that the salvation of God in Christ is not merely personal and individual, but communal, and that we are thus more dependent upon one another than we realize. Learning to see the world with new eyes, he discovered not only a more expansive vision of the church and the world, but also a more honest and complete understanding of himself as a product of an affluent and segregated society.