Product Description: Two seismic events mark the twentieth century as one of crisis for the Church. The first is the demise of the Christendom paradigm that positioned the Church as spiritual sponsor of Western Civilization. The second is the Holocaust, the horrors of which have prompted both the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches to repudiate the teachings and attitudes undergirding their dark history of Jewish persecution...read more

A response to fear that resists an ethic of security in favor of an ethic of risk through love, community, and providence is articulated in a guide that presents Christian virtues as a way to defeat suspicion, preemption, and control. Original.