Author: MCGRADY, EDITOR) ANDREW G. (AUTHOR
Title: Welcoming the Stranger: Practising Hospitality in Contemporary Ireland
Description: Veritas Publications, UK. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9781853909320 108 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Hospitality is a core value of the Christian gospel and tradition. The Christian is one who is invited to respond to the hospitality of God in Christ by living a life characterised by hospitality. Throughout the ages Irish people have long been noted for their welcome but many would argue that such hospitality is extended only to their own . Thus the Christian emphasis on a welcome for all challenges out growing fear and distrust of the stranger in our midst. In a time increasingly characterised by individualism and self-interest, Welcoming the Stranger explores notions such as self-representation and the representation of the other, accompaniment, and the recognition of human dignity; it provides reflections on multiculturalism and interculturalism within the New Ireland; it presents hospitality as a core virtue for every religious believer and as a core activity of the Church community and it relates hospitality to a number of contemporary concerns - human migration, the disablement of persons with impairments and ecological issues. : Review: Papers given at a conference on the subject organised by the marvellous Hospitaller Order of St John of God. All are concerned with reviving the tradition of the hundred thousand welcomes in an age of individualism and a state more and more concerned with rights and less with duties particularly when there are many strangers in our midst. It s a voice we should all amplify and echo. --Books Ireland December 2006: In this book we have a finely researched compilation of the reflections of seven well-known writers on the subject of hospitality. The sole woman contributor, Christine D. Pohl, states a fundamental observation that offering welcome to strangers is at the heart of the Gospel. In contemporary life it is largely overlooked as a significant Christian practice . Christine Pohl deals mainly with the biblical traditions of hospitality, mentioning especially the Celtic tradition. With other contributors, she writes of the St John of God Brothers tradition of welcome. Jesus challenges those who would follow Him to rethink to whom they pay attention . There is a copious bibliography. Fintan Brennan-Whitmore takes the familiar parable of the Good Samaritan as his starting point, examining imaginatively the sense of hospitality of those four people making the journey from Jerusalem to Jericho. So many of us divert our gaze to go out of our way to avoid encountering anything that will upset us . I have to say that in these days it is not always a lack of interest that makes us divert our gaze ; most often it is from sheer fear. Irish migration and immigration are discussed by Andrew McGrady, the Registrar of the Mater Hospital, in the opening chapter. The survival of all life on this planet demands a global ethic and an ecological conversion that recognises that we are all guests of a hospitable earth... We may even find God as a stranger who invites us to all-embracing intimacy. Bobby Gilmore looks interestingly at our ideas of blow-ins. He speaks at the shock of seeing a statement in the Immigration Museum, Cobh, Co Cork, stating that More than three million people left Ireland through this port. Thus in many other countries of the world we Irish are the blow ins. Sean McDonagh contends that while welcoming the stranger in our midst. we need to situate our concerns and our critique within the economic and political structure all that is totally destructive --The Irish Catholic January 2007: In a time of harsh individualism, this book explores notions such as welcome, accompaniment, recognition and dignity. --SPI Newsletter 2006 : About the Author: Dr Andrew G. McGrady is Registrar, Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City, University, Dublin. Size: 21.8 x 13.8 x 1 cm. 108 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Paperback; ISBN: 1853909327. ISBN/EAN: 9781853909320. Inventory No: F210-1043.

Keywords: BZDB395 History; Paperback; Welcoming the Stranger Practising Hospitality in Contemporary Ireland Editor Andrew G Author McGrady Paperback


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