Other: Embracing Difference in a Fractured World

· Hachette UK
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Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?'Jesus replied: '"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: "Love your neighbour as yourself." All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.' Matthew 22:36-40Noisy neighbours, international terrorism, racism, teenage violence and religious fundamentalism ...from the personal to the local to the international and theological, it is our failure to engage 'the other' that is at the heart of so many of the problems we face. Beginning with Jesus' instruction to love God, and love our neighbour as we love ourselves, Brewin explores how we might better engage 'the other' within the Self, within God and within the worlds we inhabit.Drawing on Brewin's work as a theologian, poet and teacher this accessible and highly original work prompts us to reconsider the key question of 'what kind of selves do we need to be in order to live in harmony with others?

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

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