Beyond the Walls of Separation
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Beyond the Walls of Separation

Christian Faith and Ministry in Prison

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Beyond the Walls of Separation

Christian Faith and Ministry in Prison

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Beyond the Walls of Separation is an essential and easy-to-read guidebook for chaplains and volunteers working in the context of prison, and for all those who are professionally or through family links related to those in prison. The book tells the story of what life behind bars is, and how inmates experience transformation through Christian faith: People at the crisis points of their life, where they are shattered, and where little is left of what made them, may experience life as fragile and as a transparent filter for the mysterious. Yet they also may experience God's life-giving presence. Love, expressed in forgiveness--against all odds, against all merits and previous experiences--lies at the root of many stories of transformation that emerge from prison.The book guides visitors to approach inmates without condescension, with an awareness of the social dimension of power and inequality, and with sensitivity to the suffering and alienation that individual prisoners experience. The many years of prison ministry in different cultural contexts and with inmates from all nations have taught the author that Christ does not need to be brought to prison through visitors, through evangelistic events, or through Christian outreach. He is already powerfully present in prison.

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Publisher
Cascade Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9781630870881
Topic
Teología y religión
Subtopic
Ministerio cristiano

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword by Howard Stone
  3. Foreword by Ron Nikkel
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Life in Prison
  7. Chapter 2: Prisons and Offender Rehabilitation—Then and Now
  8. Chapter 3: Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Imprisonment
  9. Chapter 4: Christian Faith and Spiritual Transformation in Prison
  10. Chapter 5: Christian Care for Prisoners: Chaplains and Lay Visitors
  11. Chapter 6: A Communication Guide to the Visiting Ministry
  12. Chapter 7: Roles and Relationships: Visiting in an Unequal Context
  13. Chapter 8: Prison Ministry as a Social Ministry
  14. Chapter 9: Towards a Theology of Prison Ministry
  15. Appendix
  16. Bibliography