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Grey Spaces
Jeffrey W. Driver
其他書名
Searching Out the Church in the Shadows of Abuse
出版
Wipf and Stock Publishers
, 2022-11-22
主題
Religion / Christian Church / Administration
Religion / Christian Ministry / General
Religion / Christian Theology / History
ISBN
1666794155
9781666794151
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_A2fEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Churches around the world have been confronted by shame and culpability in widespread revelations of child sexual abuse. In this book, Jeffrey Driver, who has served the Australian Anglican Church as both a diocesan bishop and archbishop, explores some of the underlying cultural and theological influences that may have predisposed the possibility of abuse, as well as the defensiveness and cover-ups that sometimes followed. The first responses of most churches to the revelations of abuse were, of necessity, mostly structural and programmatic. Recognizing the institutional temptation to do only enough to settle a crisis, Jeffrey Driver calls for something different from the churches. Drawing on the imagery of Holy Saturday, he encourages a deeper journey of reflection and change, for churches and church leaders to linger reflectively in the grey spaces of loss and shame long enough to hear the voice of God addressing them through the vulnerable and the wounded once more, calling the church back to itself and into a deeper, humbler relationship with the world it is called to serve.