Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters Across the Color Line - Softcover

Pramuk, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814682103 ISBN 13: 9780814682104

Publisher: Liturgical Press, 2013

Synopsis

In Hope Sings, So Beautiful, award-winning author Christopher Pramuk offers a mosaic of images and sketches for thinking and praying through difficult questions about race. The reader will encounter the perspectives of artists, poets, and theologians from many different ethnic and racial communities.

This richly illustrated book is not primarily sociological or ethnographic in approach. Rather, its horizon is shaped by questions of theology, spirituality, and pastoral practice. Pramuk's narrative and cross-disciplinary approach to this difficult topic will stimulate fruitful conversations and fresh thinking, whether in private study or prayer; in classrooms, churches, and reading groups; or among friends and family around the dinner table.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Pramuk is chair of Ignatian Thought and Imagination, and associate professor of theology at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton and Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters across the Color Line both from Liturgical Press, and the recipient of the CatholicTheological Society of America's 2009 Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award, the International Thomas Merton Society's 2011 Thomas Merton Award (aka"The Louie"), and several best essay awards from the Catholic PressAssociation.

Review:

Pramuk's passion in Hope Sings, So Beautiful is nothing less than overcoming every form of discrimination, but especially racism, to gaze on Christ 'in ten thousand places.' It is spiritual theology at its most satisfying. If you want uplift and are not afraid to be turned upside down and inside out, this is the book for you. -- Drew Christiansen, SJ, former Editor, America magazine

Hope Sings, So Beautiful dares to interrupt readers, inviting them to reflect more deeply still on systemic racism's dehumanization of us all. Pramuk writes with eloquence, integrity, and urgency. -- Kimberly Vrudny, University of St. Thomas

Kiss doubt and small living goodbye and prepare to take a tremulous step across the color line. Hope Sings gracefully shepherds the reader beyond isolated, self-centered prisons into inspiring worlds of scholarship, story, and song. Pramuk does not present a simplistic diagnosis of race problems, but an alternate horizon painful, partial, mysterious, but nonetheless resonant with music. To those who help us see, we owe the deepest reverence; this author is one. --Kathy Coffey, Author of The Best of Being Catholic

Pramuk creatively interweaves music, scholarship, art, the natural world, theology, personal experience, spiritual writings, and much more to examine discipleship in a racist and fractured world. But above all he unveils the everyday mystery of divine love that beckons us to new life and a new way forward. --Timothy Matovina, University of Notre Dame, Author of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's Largest Church

About this edition

• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0814682103
• ISBN 13: 9780814682104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240