Urban Spirituality

 

Urban Poor Spirituality


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Learning Objectives

Understand the context of urban poor spiritualities and analyse expected types of spirituality the context causes or requires.

Evaluate the effectiveness of our spiritual disciplines in enabling us to cope with the pressures of urban life.

Action & Assignments

1. Read extensively on these topics

2. Share Word Hand or Wheel with Spiritual Growth group. Report.

 

Conversations

1.What is the spirit of the City? What characteristics does an urban thspirituality have that oppose that spirit?

2. Are Bono and the Blues then the same as the psalmist was in Israel, interpreters of spirituality in a new millieux? Do they portray truth into the context where all truth is blurry? Rate their success in creating an alternaticve spirituality to that of the city.

3. In what waysdo Hanks and Guitierrez give us ways forward in the context of the oppressions of urbanism?