Product Description

How to better engage the other within the Self, within God and within the worlds we inhabit

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #375003 in Books
• Published on: 2010-06-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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Review
A book for mystics and poets and troubadours of a new world. Brewin invites you to look into the eyes of others and squint a little - to see the image of God. He dares you to see the world with new eyes - to look into the mirror and see one who is beloved, to look into the eyes of the orphan and see Christ, to look into the eyes of those whom we find hard to like and catch a glimpse of the One we love. (Shane Claiborne )

With his new book Other, English author Kester Brewin joins Peter Rollins from Ireland and David Dark from the US as leading public theologians for a new generation of thoughtful Christians. He moves gracefully from Scripture to philosophy to pop culture to sociology and back to Scripture again, offering fresh, honest, and needed insights at each turn. I look forward to keeping up with this important voice in the years ahead. (Brian McLaren )

In our socially networked and technologically advanced world we remain surrounded by mystery: the mystery of others, the divine mystery and mystery that we are unto ourselves. OTHER masterfully explores how we might embrace this often complex reality and draws out how love of that which is other is central to the Christian experience. This is a work of rare beauty. (Peter Rollins, Ikon )

Half-mystic and half hard-core intellectual, Brewin here offers us an intimate, personable, completely accessible and, at times, hauntingly beautiful engagement with the hard questions of emergence theology. This is a brilliant work. It illumines with reverence and care the paradox that is faith, even as it speaks, always with vigour, of love and the reality that lies at the centre of our not-knowing. (Phyllis Tickle )

By turns startling, heart-warming and thought-provoking, Other opens up old themes for a new generation. There are plenty of books that tell you what you expect to hear. This, I'm happy to say, is not one of them. (Maggi Dawn )

'...a brave, generous, wide-ranging and challenging exploration of the essential task facing us all as humans: to love ourselves, God and our neighbours in a world of fractures... It is a book which will become treasured in our festival's community. Indeed, if Greenbelt had a curriculum, OTHER would be required reading.' (Paul Northup, Greenbelt Festival )

From the Author
This is my second book, and follows out of the ground I explored in The Complex Christ - how we might build faith communities based on 'bottom up' emergent principles - to widen the scope to how we might engage 'the other' wherever they may be found.

The book is structured around Jesus' summary of Law: love God, love neighbour, as you love yourself.

About the Author
Kester Brewin is a part-time secondary school teacher and a consultant for BBC Education. As well as writing for the national educational press, he is a published poet and a regular contributor to Third Way magazine. His acclaimed first book, The Complex Christ, was published in 2004. Follow his blog at www.kesterbrewin.com