ABSTRACT
Catchpole offers an important insight into the importance of relationship and the composition of community. From the point of hospitality, Catchpole's thoughts remind one that the grounding of our being is found in communities of faith that echo the hospitable God. The sense of the presence of the hospitable God in the context of worship continues to provide a vital dimension to hospitable response in engaged discipleship. Philanthropical investment or engaged philanthropy is a crucial way of changing hospitality from words to deeds. God as spirit is the source of that spiritual dimension in the cosmos which encourages transformation towards hospitality. Christian faith understands this dynamic as a Christomorphic trace in the universe. Liberal theology is centred on the divine freedom, and may be expressed in radical dimensions through liberation, ecological and comparative theology. As witness to divine hospitality, churches have the opportunity to act as exemplars of hospitable interaction.
