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Required Readings:

Boff, Clodovis. Feet-On-the-Ground Theology: A Brazilian Journey. Lima, OH: Academic Renewal, 2002. ISBN# 0-8834-4554-9. (Copies are available through major booksellers and through the publisher by calling 800.537.1030 or 419.227.1818 or by ordering online at <www.arpress.com>.)

Brueggemann, Walter. The Prophetic Imagination. Revised and updated ed. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2001. ISBN# 0-8006-3287-7.

*Cowan, Michael, and Bernard Lee. Conversation, Risk and Conversion: The Inner and Public Life of Small Christian Communities . Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997. ISBN# 1-5707-5149-8. (Specialty text; copies are available through the LIM office by calling 800.777-5469 and asking for Jennifer.)

Whitehead, Evelyn, and James Whitehead. Community of Faith: Crafting Christian Communities Today. 1992. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com, 2001. ISBN # 0-5951-9808-2. (Order at <custservice@iUniverse.com> or by calling 877.823.9235, ext. 5; copies should also be available through major booksellers.)

Roman Catholic Documents and Resources:

Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World). Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents. Vols. 1 and 2. Ed. Austin Flannery, O.P. Northport, NY: Costello, 1998. ISBN # 0-9183-4439-5 and 0-9183-4416-6. Text is available online at <http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_cons_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html>.

John Paul II. Christifideles Laici (Apostolic Exhortation on the Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World). 9 February 1989. Origins 18. <http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_30121988_christifideles-laici_en.html>.

––. Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern of the Church). Encyclical Letter, 30 December 1987. <http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0223/_INDEX.HTM>.
http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0223/_INDEX.HTM

Synod of Bishops. Justice in the World. Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1972.

Additional Sources:

Friedman, Samuel. Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN# 0-0609-2459-4.

Greider, William. Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal of American Democracy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. ISBN# 0-6718-6740-7.

Harmer, Catherine. The Compassionate Community: Strategies that Work for the Third Millennium. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1998. ISBN# 1-5707-5196-X. Lima, OH: Academic Renewal, 2003. ISBN # 1-5707-5196-X . (Copies are available through major booksellers and through the publisher by calling 800.537.1030 or 419.227.1818 or by ordering online at <www.arpress.com>.)

Healey, Jospeh, and Donald Sybertz. Towards an African Narrative Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2002. ISBN# 1-5707-5121-8.

Hebblethwaite, Margaret. Base Communities: An Introduction. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1994. ISBN# 0-8091-3409-8.

Lee, Bernard. The Catholic Experience of Small Christian Communities. New York: Paulist, 2000. ISBN# 0-8091-3937-5.

Minkler, Meredith. Community Organizing and Community Building for Health. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1997. ISBN# 0-8135-2436-9.

Moving Reflection Into Action! Planning Resource For SCCs. Order from Parish Renewal Consulting Services, 3725 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94110; Phone/Fax 415-821-0419. <http://www.buenavista.org/prcspage.html>.  

Pelton, Robert ed. Small Christian Communities: Imagining Future Church. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. ISBN# 0-2680-1761-1.

–––. From Power to Communion: Toward a New Way of Being Church based on the Latin American Experience. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. ISBN# 0-2680-0990-2.

RENEW International. Parish Core Communities: Renewing the Face of the Earth. Tape 3: “Small Communities Reaching Out.” Videocassette, Plainfield, NJ: RENEW International, 2002.

Sandel, Michael. Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a New Public Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 1998. ISBN# 0-6741-9744-5.

Wheatley, Margaret. Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2002. ISBN# 1-5767-5145-7.

Wolin, Sheldon. The Presence of the Past. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. ISBN# 0-8018-4116-X.

Web Sites of Interest:

Buena Vista Homepage. <http://www.buenavista.org>.

Catholic Campaign for Human Development. U.S. Catholic Bishops. <http://usccb.org/cchd>.

Catholic Social Teaching. Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. <http://www.osjspm.org/cst/>.

The Center of Concern. <http://www.coc.org>.

National Alliance for Parishes Restructuring into Communities. <http://www.naprc.faithweb.com/>.

North American Forum on Small Christian Communities. <http://www.nafscc.org/>.

ParishLife. <http://parishlife.com/>.

RENEW International. <http://www.renewintl.org/>.

Small Christian Communities. <http://www.smallchristiancommunities.org>.

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