Radical hospitality

by Lloyd Lee Wilson

Pamphlet, April 2014

Status

Available

Call number

CP 427 c1

Publication

Wallingford, PA : Pendle Hill Publications, 2014.

ISBN

9780875744278

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Description

Radical hospitality is a way of being in the world that helps to bring the Kingdom of God into full realization. According to Lloyd Lee Wilson, we help to fulfill God’s will for the creation by living as part of the Kingdom here and now. The author finds in the events of Jesus’s life and in his parables lessons in how to be part of the Kingdom—through inclusiveness toward all people, through letting go of personal cravings for possessions and power, and through non-coercion. It means putting God, rather than ourselves, at the center of our lives. Wilson issues a compelling invitation to participate in building a community of radical hospitality. -- Publisher's description.

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LibraryThing member kaulsu
Wilson, a Conservative Friend from North Carolina, raises some difficult questions in this pamphlet. He finds today’s “key question” in modern religion is “How can I be saved?” though it often strays from this Christian terminology to be couched in other language: “How can I be
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enlightened?” “How can I be spiritually fulfilled?” To Wilson, the “real great question is ‘How are we to live our lives in the broken world?’” His answer, as you may have guessed, is radical hospitality. To live our lives such that we are not the “center” of the story—to recognize that God is. The pamphlet goes on to discuss “perfect harmony,” “the ethical basis for choices,” “inclusiveness,” “self-emptying,” and “nonviolence and noncoercion.”
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LibraryThing member QuakerReviews
This is an essay by a wise Friend, clear, readable, helpful, and deepening. He asks, How are we to live in this broken and troubled world? God calls us to live in ways that hasten the Kingdom of God and invite others to share in that life. This is a life of radical hospitality, where we practice
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inclusiveness, renounce power, wealth, and privilege, and commit ourselves to noncoercion, all as God does. We are called to witness to the harmony of the Kingdom of God, and as we do, we participate in bringing it to completion. It is our happiness and our security.
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