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God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics by Samuel Wells
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“St Laurence gathered the poor, the blind, and the lame together in the church in Rome and brought in the rapacious Roman authorities, proclaiming, “Here are the riches of the Church!”

Whenever Christians refuse to use the word “Church” as a synonym for “those in prominent roles in the clergy hierarchy,” but instead assume and take for granted that “Church” means principally the uncelebrated, the downtrodden, and the poor, the Holy Spirit is active in making the stories of Church history live in the habits of Christian speech.”
Samuel Wells, God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics