The Church on the Margins: Living Christian Community
By Mary R. Sawyer.
Description
Much is being written about the church, Mary Sawyer says, but established theologians and sociologists of religion typically limit their inquiries to white, establishment Christianity. Yet this is only one segment of the church. And so they miss writing about Christian community at all—for Christian community is lived community.The attention paid to white churches is uninformative and even misleading insofar as African Americans, Latina/os, Native Americans, and Asian Americans are concerned. Their experiences, in the world and in the church, are markedly different and cannot be gener...
ISBN(s)
1563383667, 9781563383663