TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leffel,Gregory P.
TI  - Faith Seeking Action: Mission, Social Movements, and the Church in Motion
T2  - Intercultural Studies
SN  - 9781461658573
AV  - BV601.8 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Scarecrow Press
KW  - Mission of the church
KW  - Missions
KW  - Sociology, Biblical
KW  - Church and social problems
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - About the Author; Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Series Foreword J. Steven O'Malley and Howard A. Snyder; Sub-Series Foreword Michael A. Rynkiewich; Introduction; 1 Mission and Movements; 2 Toward a Missio-Ecclesiology; 3 Social Movements: An Interpretive Framework; 4 The Antiglobalization Movement; 5 The Sanctuary Movement; 6 The Xenos Christian Fellowship House Church Movement; 7 Social Movements: An Action Framework; 8 Missio-Ecclesiology: Faith Seeking Action; 9 Mission and Imagination; Bibliography; Index
N2  - In Faith Seeking Action, author Gregory Leffel links a description of the church as a global movement with a description of contemporary social movements that are actively challenging today's societies, such as the environmental, global justice, and identity movements. Not surprisingly, Christian communities and communities of social activists share much in common as they each work to enrich their societies. It is natural then to ask what missionally-concerned Christians may learn from social movements about the public role of their churches, the connection of their beliefs to social change, a
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