Anne-Marie Ellithorpe - Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities - A Practical Theology of Friendship

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Map 1 Māui and Aotearoa New Zealand

Map 2 Aotearoa New Zealand

I.1 A Cornflower in the Wheatfield

I.2 Social Glue

2.1 “The Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi,” Ōriwa Haddon

2.2 Parihaka, Te Whiti, and Te Whiti addressing a crowd

II.1 Aspects of Community Life in a Joint Family Compound in Iron Age II IsraelIII.1 Three Sets of Relationships

IV.1 Communities of Practice and the Issue of Land

9.1 Lyall Te Ohu and his 10-month-old son Tūmoana

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At the beginning of a book that seeks to articulate a practical theology of friendship, I firstly acknowledge God, people, and land as sustaining me throughout this writing project. I express my gratitude first and foremost to the Creator, the ultimate source and sustainer of all life, love, and friendship.

I am deeply grateful for the friends, communities, traditions, and resources that have provided various forms of inspiration, sustenance, and support in the crafting of this book. This project builds upon my doctoral journey and thus I express my heartfelt thanks to my supervisors, Dr. Neil Pembroke, Dr. Charles Ringma, and Dr. Irene Alexander for their mentoring, insight, and friendship. I also wish to express my gratitude for the support provided by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship and an Australian Postgraduate Award as I pursued this research through the University of Queensland’s School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry. This project goes beyond my doctoral work with a more explicit focus on Indigenous values, understandings, and experiences. I am particularly thankful to Rev. Dr. Rangi Nicholson for his encouragement and mentoring in this regard. He has been an invaluable Māori language adviser and cultural consultant.

Others who have encouraged me with the importance and contemporary relevance of this work include Dr. Susan Phillips, Rev. Dr. Patricia Dutcher-Walls, Rabbi Dr. Laura Duhan-Kaplan, and Dr. Paul Wadell. Several anonymous reviewers of my book manuscript have also emphasized its timeliness; I am grateful for their positive and constructive feedback. I have discovered various conversation partners through the libraries I have had access to throughout my research and am particularly thankful for access to the library resources of the Vancouver School of Theology and the University of British Columbia.

I thank Matua Rangi Nicholson for his encouragement that this work is relevant to the future of Aotearoa New Zealand, and for his constructive feedback on my chapter exploring coexisting friendship worlds in Aotearoa, Hannah Chapman and Sina Asomua Bishop for their encouraging feedback on the same chapter, and Sister Josephine Gorman and Joanne White for supporting my exploration of the life and work of Suzanne Aubert. I am grateful to Paul and Kathleen Wagler for friendship-focused conversations and their ongoing generous hospitality, Jonathan Wilson and Soohwan Park for making possible a writing retreat, Janet Eastwood for generously giving her time to assist me in sharpening my writing, and my mother, Glenis Maindonald, for the provision of several illustrations. My family have been invaluable sources of encouragement, support, and inspiration throughout this project; I am especially indebted to James Ellithorpe for the many ways in which he has supported me in this work. I deeply appreciate all the conversation partners and friends, past and present, in book form or in person, who have formed me, informed this writing, and provoked a vision of communal nurture of friendship-shaped communities.