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Beyond homelessness : Christian faith in a culture of displacement

This book is a brilliant use of metaphor that makes clear why the world leaves us feeling so uneasy!
Print Book, English, 2008
William B. Eerdmans Pub., Grand Rapids, Mich., 2008
xv, 361 pages ; 23 cm
9780802846921, 0802846920
181072606
There's no place like home
A culture of displacement, amnesia, and homelessness
Which memories, what home?
Biblical homecoming
Kenneth and Kenny again
The meaning of home
Categories of displacement
The problem of boundaries
The necessity of boundaries
A phenomenology of home
The ambivalence of home
Socioeconomic homelessness
The streetcar sped away
Nobody's child
Homelessness : a socioethical crisis
Why socioeconomic homelessness? : a structural analysis
Homelessness : a socioethical crisis revisited
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
From housing to homemaking
The shape of worldviews
Houses and homes
Housing for homemaking
Economics for homemaking
Rights, public policy, and the church
More than bricks and mortar
Ecological homelessness
The plight of planet earth
Why ecological homelessness? : a sociocultural analysis
The home planet : the earth as oikos
Shalom and the character of earthkeeping
The biblical vision of Shalom
The virtues of Shalom
Practices of earthkeepers
Christians as aching visionaries
Postmodern homelessness
Double homesickness "over the rainbow"
Homeless home constructors
Homelessness, migrancy, and the tourist self
On the road to nowhere
Postmodern migrants or homeless consumers?
The indwelling God and the sojourning community
The God of love and creation as other
The God of grace and creation as gift
The God of goodness and creation as good
Christ-followers as sojourners
Homeward bound
Redemptive homecoming
Hope, home, and imagination
The homemaking father