Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 186
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅛
978-1-9787-0267-7 • Hardback • November 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Amanda D. Quantz is professor of theology at the University of Saint Mary.
IntroductionA Prophetic Endeavor: Mutuality, Plurality, Transformation
Chapter 1Welcoming the Stranger: Courage, Curiosity, Generosity
Chapter 2Interspirituality: Similarity-in-Difference
Chapter 3Church Outside the Walls: Health, Healing, Wholeness, Holiness
Chapter 4Sanctuary and City: A Radical Ministry of Presence
Chapter 5Action-Reflection: Radical Hospitality and the Contemplative Life
ConclusionWelcome Home
Much of the conversation around the growing number of Millennial “Nones” and religion has been about the question of how to get them back into church. In Radical Hospitality, Amanda Quantz shows that the spiritual resources needed are readily available, as long as the church is willing to meet people where they arrive. In a sweeping overview with fascinating details, she offers a path that places an emphasis on offering welcome in abundance, and not always in the usual places.
— Kaya Oakes
Pope John Paul II spoke of the "New Evangelization" as "new in ardor, new in content, and new in method." Too often, though, people in the church have focused only on the "ardor" aspect: we need to try harder and speak louder. In this fascinating, bold, and sometimes provocative book, however, Amanda Quantz has equalized the balance. She offers fresh new ways of thinking about and communicating our faith to people in our world today. God, she shows us, is bigger than our doctrines, and bigger than our imaginations. And really attractive!
— Stephen Bevans
Radical Hospitality for a Prophetic Church is a bold and provocative work, guaranteed to make us think beyond the box! Amanda Quantz accomplishes this by expanding beyond traditional Roman Catholic frameworks and world views, and, instead, bringing into dialogue (and cohesion) the wider spectrum of available religiosities and spiritualities as they are lived and experienced in our daily lives. The result is a work that should not only appeal to millennials, but to all of us who remain in touch with the signs of our times.
— Ricky Manalo, CSP, author of The Liturgy of Life: The Interrelationship of Sunday Eucharist and Everyday Worship Practices