The Gospel and Utopia: 'No-place like it' Christianity (Volume 1)

By Fr. José María Iraburu

The Gospel and Utopia is perhaps one of Fr. Jos? Mar?a Iraburu's best known works, providing a challenging but practical roadmap to sanctity for individuals, families and communities. Based on the potential of the Gospel to bring into existence a u-topia, a situation that is ordinarily inexistent, a 'no-place' like it way of life, distinct and better than anything within our topical world, The Gospel and Utopia both challenges and inspires. Ways and degrees of living the Christian life, generally thought to be u-topian and beyond us, although immeasurably more inspiring than current, topical expectations, are proposed as accessible and achievable through the new wine of God's Spirit. Meanwhile, lay pusillanimity and the accommodating of worldly patterns of living are called into question. Model Christian communities, from the early Church in Jerusalem to the 17the century Latin American Jesuit Reductions to modern communities such as Community of the Beatitudes, the John 2.5 Community and the Federation of Ecclesial Communities, are presented as testimony to the u-topian power of the Gospel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1453880178
• ISBN13: 9781453880173
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"