{"product_id":"passion-for-the-inner-city-transporting-monastic-life-to-1970s-liverpool-9781739716202","title":"Passion for the Inner City: Transporting Monastic Life to 1970s Liverpool","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Austin Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lab\/Ora Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lab\/Ora Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Monasticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"There is little credibility in healing a privileged world. If the Church is failing the powerless of this world, it is failing the Gospel totally.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1971, two priests from a Catholic order left their monastery in order to reinvent the contemplative life amid a Liverpool community oppressed by poverty and systemic racism. Foreshadowing the 'new monastic' movement, the members of a 300-year-old religious order began to translate the radical, self-sacrificial values of monastic living into an open, hospitable, practical life on the margins of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePassion for the Inner City \u003c\/em\u003eis a probing spiritual reflection on the first twelve years of Austin Smith's life in the inner city. He describes a new model of faith-not just giving up his possessions, but letting go of assumptions, dependencies, all his rationalisations-until he sees the poorest in society outside of his own agendas. By living and suffering alongside them, he calls out the deep offensiveness of the inequality we daily permit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith stories, insights and reflections, \u003cem\u003ePassion for the Inner City \u003c\/em\u003eis a fascinating account of 'old' monasticism embracing the challenges of the present, and also a trove of wisdom and challenges that still have sharp questions to ask anyone pursuing their faith today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I have gone on marches in the inner city; I have fought for better housing; I have been part of the struggle for better education for our children; I have stood on the street in riots; I have been part and parcel of the struggle for community power; I have set my face against my own racism and the racism of others. Why? Because I believe where creation is sinned against, where human beings suffer, Jesus is being crucified.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46445717815447,"sku":"9781739716202","price":677.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781739716202.webp?v=1769135076","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/passion-for-the-inner-city-transporting-monastic-life-to-1970s-liverpool-9781739716202","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}