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Book Review: Faith-Based Development: How Christian Organizations Can Make a Difference

Book Review: Faith-Based Development: How Christian Organizations Can Make a Difference ATR/100.2 440 Anglican Theological Review spirituality required to undertake genuinely Christian theological reasoning. In a nonfoundationalist landscape, what other normative factor is there for adjudicating the truthfulness of a theological interpretation? If it is true, as Frederick Buechner claims, that all theology is at its heart autobiography, I hope Dale Martin publishes his spiritual autobiography; it would comple- ment Biblical Truths very nicely. Colin McFarland Saint Paul University Ottawa, Ontario Faith-Based Development: How Christian Organizations Can Make a Difference. By Bob Mitchell. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2017. 229 pp. $26.00 (paper). Mitchell’s training as a lawyer and as a priest show in a text that is both carefully outlined and thoroughly imbued with theological references and rationale. Each of the sixteen brief chapters have labeled subsections with an obvious and logical relationship to the theme of the chapter. The point of the book is that faith-based organizations should retain their original core of faith orientation as they pursue their operations. Mitchell argues that in their desire for income from secular sources, faith-based organizations often secularize themselves, weakening the element of faith making it peripheral. This diminishes their ability to accomplish their mission(s). Firmly rejecting proselytizing, Mitchell illustrates the importance http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: Faith-Based Development: How Christian Organizations Can Make a Difference

Rawlinson, John
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 100 (2): 1 – Aug 25, 2021
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ATR/100.2 440 Anglican Theological Review spirituality required to undertake genuinely Christian theological reasoning. In a nonfoundationalist landscape, what other normative factor is there for adjudicating the truthfulness of a theological interpretation? If it is true, as Frederick Buechner claims, that all theology is at its heart autobiography, I hope Dale Martin publishes his spiritual autobiography; it would comple- ment Biblical Truths very nicely. Colin McFarland Saint Paul University Ottawa, Ontario Faith-Based Development: How Christian Organizations Can Make a Difference. By Bob Mitchell. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2017. 229 pp. $26.00 (paper). Mitchell’s training as a lawyer and as a priest show in a text that is both carefully outlined and thoroughly imbued with theological references and rationale. Each of the sixteen brief chapters have labeled subsections with an obvious and logical relationship to the theme of the chapter. The point of the book is that faith-based organizations should retain their original core of faith orientation as they pursue their operations. Mitchell argues that in their desire for income from secular sources, faith-based organizations often secularize themselves, weakening the element of faith making it peripheral. This diminishes their ability to accomplish their mission(s). Firmly rejecting proselytizing, Mitchell illustrates the importance

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