The Capacity to Be Displaced: Resilience, Mission, and Inner Strength

In The Capacity to be Displaced Clemens Sedmak develops the idea that missionaries and development workers experiencing displacement have to be resilient; it is "resilience from within," nourished by beliefs and hopes that makes a person flourish in adverse circumstances.

About the author

Clemens Sedmak holds the F.D. Maurice Chair in Moral and Social Theology at King's College London. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame working in the area of Social Ethics.

Product details

• Authors: Clemens Sedmak
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2017
• EAN: 9789004341838
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34183-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 227 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 377 g
• Series: Theology and Mission in World
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity