Field Hospital
The Church's Engagement with a Wounded World
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Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefieldhospitalchu0000cava
- ISBN-100802872972
- ISBN-139780802872975
- Library of Congress Control Number2015038501
- OCLC Control Number921167308
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780802872975
- Open LibraryOL27706158M
Classifications
- LCCBV601.8 .C38 2016
- LCCBV601.8.C38 2016
Description
Pope Francis in a 2013 interview famously likened the church to a field hospital. In this book William Cavanaugh adopts Pope Francis's metaphor to show how the church can help heal both the spiritual and the material wounds of the world. As he examines the intersection of theology with themes of religious freedom, economic injustice, religious violence, and other pressing topics, Cavanaugh emphasizes that the church cannot condemn the evils of the world from a position of superiority. Rather, he says, its practices of solidarity with humanity must be based on a profound recognition that the church shares in the guilt of human sin. Cavanaugh's Field Hospital provides guideposts for a church that is willing to go outside of itself onto today's battlefields -- both metaphorical and literal -- not to inflict wounds but to bind them up and heal them.
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