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Clown of the city

Title
Clown of the city / Stephan de Beer.
Author
De Beer, Stéphan, 1967-
Publication
  • [Stellenbosch] : African Sun Press, [2020]
  • ©2020

Details

Description
262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
At opening this book, everything one has learned or thought about "urban ministry" is challenged, and changed. Stephan de Beer offers a fresh, exciting and thoroughly engaging approach. The title is enticing and playful, but the book is a serious grappling with the daunting realities of a shadowed, marginalised, urban life. It does not theorise or pontificate about a concept. The author is not a distant, neutral observer. He is an engaged minister to the people, a struggler in their struggles, prophet to the powerful. This book invites the reader to join the people of the cities under siege by failed policies, empty promises, and disastrous politics, in their struggles for meaningful life, and it makes a powerful, persuasive case. Stephan de Beer has offered us a great gift and a wonderful opportunity to think and hope anew, and differently, about the life, reality, and future of the city.[Review].
Subject
  • South Africa
  • urban society
  • Church
  • Christian theology
  • urban life
  • urban areas
  • universities
Note
  • Also issued in electronic format.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and notes.
ISBN
  • 9781928480846
  • 1928480845
  • 9781928480853 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1242866705
Author
De Beer, Stéphan, 1967- author. Author
Title
Clown of the city / Stephan de Beer.
Publisher
[Stellenbosch] : African Sun Press, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and notes.
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