Review "A brilliant book! Brigham presents a compelling yet thoroughly practical vision of what the church could and should be in our times. Clarifying the church’s mission as one of radical hospitality, Brigham brings personal experience, cutting edge philosophy, and nuanced theology into dialogue with actual church practices. This inspiring and well-written book will be accessible for undergraduates, thought-provoking for graduate students, and engaging for all who seek to follow Christ in the church today."Mary Doak, University of San Diego Product Description Through an ethnographically driven study of expressions of sanctuary in San Francisco, Church as Field Hospital constructs an ecclesiology that expands notions of public engagement and sacred space in Christian theology. Sanctuary practices that create spaces for those who have been marginalized—immigrants, refugees, and unhoused people—reflect the field hospital church Pope Francis has envisioned and enacted. This book investigates sanctuary as a way of being church, one marked by prophetic witness, embodied solidarity, sacramental praxis, and radical hospitality. About the Author Erin Brigham is the Faculty Coordinator of Research for the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought and Adjunct Professor in the Theology and Religious Studies Department of the University of San Francisco. She earned her PhD in systematic and philosophical theology at the Graduate Theological Union in 2010. Her research interests include Catholic public theology and social thought as well as post-conciliar ecclesiology and ecumenism. Her work has appeared in Ecumenical Review, The Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and other periodicals.

Church as Field Hospital: Toward an Ecclesiology of Sanctuary

History

Brigham, Erin

World

Liturgical Press

What is unity and how does it serve as a goal for ecumenical dialogue? How can churches, ecumenical organizations, ministers, and theologians effectively approach this goal in the twenty-first century? Sustaining the Hope for Unity offers a methodological reflection on these questions using insights of contemporary critical theory. With particular attention to the work of Jürgen Habermas, the book develops a framework for exchanging religious narratives in a postmodern context marked by pluralism and ambiguity. Using this framework to address questions that have emerged out of the life of the World Council of Churches, Sustaining the Hope for Unity argues that unity must be imagined eschatologically in order to achieve inclusive and non-coercive dialogue between diverse Christian communities. Looking ahead to ecumenism in the twenty-first century, it makes a case for the role of the WCC as a public space for the exchange of religious narratives.

Sustaining the Hope for Unity: Ecumenical dialogue in a Postmodern World

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

An Ignatian Educator’s Response to Supporting Immigrants and Refugees
Our broken immigration system is much more than just a daily headline in the news. It has contributed to injustices that intimately affect people worldwide. From family separation at the U.S. southern border, to the detention and deportation of loved ones, to the widespread challenges that undocumented communities face, immigrants and refugees have repeatedly responded with resilience and resistance. 
In this volume, the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition at the University of San Francisco has compiled essays from educators across the Jesuit network offering testimonies, best practices, and methods on how we ought to respond to the realities of global migration with courage, compassion, and coaction.

Beyond Borders: Reflections on the Resistance & Resilience Among Immigrant Youth and Families (The Lane Center Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Bravo, Flavio

Social Sciences

University of San Francisco

Empowering People through Encounter: Catholic Social Teaching and Community Organizing (Enacting Catholic Social Tradition)

O'Connell, Maureen H.

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