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050 00 $aBS680.J8$bG75 1993
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aGriffith, Lee,$d1948-
245 14 $aThe fall of the prison :$bbiblical perspectives on prison abolition /$cLee Griffith.
260 $aGrand Rapids, Mich. :$bWilliam B. Eerdmans,$c©1993.
300 $axx, 258 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-250) and indexes.
505 0 $aPrisons and the relevance of the gospel -- Prisons and the social order -- Prisons and the Bible -- Prisons and the churches -- Prisons and discipleship.
520 8 $a"This book caused this reader to examine his own convictions about pastoral work with 'convicts' and understand the historical relationship of the 'Christian' church and prisons. Griffith reveals repeated institutional failures to reform criminals by punitive and rehabilitative means throughout history. Griffith challenges the reader to walk the more excellent way of love that leads to the fall of the prison. He calls the reader back to the early history of the Church when disciples followed Christ into prisons in Christian solidarity with the prisoners - a less traveled narrow way of peace that leads the wolves of the world to dwell with the lambs of God. As a conclusion to his book Griffith brings the reader to a fork in the correctional road: does the reader choose to enter through the wide prison gate to follow the easy way of crime and punishment or does the reader choose to go through the narrow heavenly gate to follow the hard way of loving one's enemies? This book begs an answer to the prison's questionable past, present, and future. Read the book and answer the call to Christian discipleship. The walls are tumbling down!"--Amazon.com.
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