Placing Good Samaritan: Formation Practices
Placing Good Samaritan: Formation Practices
This chapter looks at the events that brought the community of Good Samaritan into being. Of particular interest are the formation practices, of which the opening story in this chapter is a significant example. Who did the community understand itself to be? What did it understand itself to be called to do? As activities of self-definition, formation practices create signs that can coalesce into a claimed identity. And since identity always undergoes renegotiation, there are no absolute boundaries between formation practices and those practices that sustain the community between the origin and dispersal of an identity.
Keywords: Good Samaritan UMC, Wellspring United Methodist, formation practices, identity, community
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