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Author | : Benjamin H. Dunning |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2012-02-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0812201817 |
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Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larger Roman world as the new movement grew and struggled to make sense of its own boundaries? Aliens and Sojourners argues that the claim to alien status is not a transparent one. Instead, Benjamin Dunning contends, it shaped a rich, pervasive, variegated discourse of identity in early Christianity. Resident aliens and foreigners had long occupied a conflicted space of both repulsion and desire in ancient thinking. Dunning demonstrates how Christians and others in antiquity capitalized on this tension, refiguring the resident alien as being of a compelling doubleness, simultaneously marginal and potent. Early Christians, he argues, used this refiguration to render Christian identity legible, distinct, and even desirable among the vast range of social and religious identities and practices that proliferated in the ancient Mediterranean. Through close readings of ancient Christian texts such as Hebrews, 1 Peter, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the Epistle to Diognetus, Dunning examines the markedly different ways that Christians used the language of their own marginality, articulating a range of options for what it means to be Christian in relation to the Roman social order. His conclusions have implications not only for the study of late antiquity but also for understanding the rhetorics of religious alienation more broadly, both in the ancient world and today.
Author | : Benjamin Harrison Dunning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Apocryphon of James |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James K. Hoffmeier |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Emigration and immigration |
ISBN | : 9781433506079 |
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Hoffmeier combines biblical, archaeological, and sociological evidence to form a definition and understanding of aliens in Israelite society, which helps inform the current debate on the status of illegal immigrants in the United States.
Author | : Matthew Soerens |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-07-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830885552 |
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World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
Author | : M. Daniel Carroll R. |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2008-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 080103566X |
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Hispanic Old Testament scholar Daniel Carroll brings biblical theology to bear creatively on the current immigration conversation with an eye to correcting assumptions on both sides of the issue.
Author | : Greg Johnson |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310116066 |
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At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure. With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patients were treated by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of intentions, the movement ended with very troubling results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel. Yet even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people like me to say, "I used to be gay, but I'm not gay anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted." For orthodox Christians, the way forward is a path back to where we were forty years ago. It is time again to focus with our Neo-Evangelical fathers on care--not cure--for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus. With warmth and humor as well as original research, Still Time to Care will chart the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care. It will provide guidance for the gay person who hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-giving call of Jesus. Woven throughout the book will be Richard Lovelace’s 1978 call for a "double repentance" in which gay Christians repent of their homosexual sins and the church repents of its homophobia--putting on display for all the power of the gospel.
Author | : Thomas R. Schreiner |
Publisher | : B&H Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2003-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433672707 |
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THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Notable features include:* commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION;* the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary;* sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original languages;* interpretation that emphasizes the theological unity of each book and of Scripture as a whole;* readable and applicable exposition.
Author | : M. Daniel Carroll R. |
Publisher | : Brazos Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493423533 |
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With so many people around the globe migrating, how should Christians and the church respond? Leading Latino-American biblical scholar M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas) helps readers understand what the Bible says about immigration, offering accessible, nuanced, and sympathetic guidance for the church. After two successful editions of Christians at the Border, and having talked and written about immigration over the past decade, Carroll has sharpened his focus and refined his argument to make sure we hear clearly what the Bible says about one of the most pressing issues of our day. He has reworked the biblical material, adding insights and broadening the frame of reference beyond the US. As Carroll explores the surprising amount of material in the Old and New Testaments that deals with migration, he shows how this topic is fundamental to the message of the Bible and how it affects our understanding of God and the mission of the church.
Author | : Michael W. Holmes |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 080103468X |
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A contemporary version of important early Christian texts that are not included in the New Testament. The translation, Greek texts, introduction, notes, and bibliographies are freshly revised.
Author | : Chad Gonzales |
Publisher | : Chad Gonzales |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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In ALIENS, Chad Gonzales leads readers on jaw dropping journey of discovering their true origin: Heaven. You will learn how to live out of Heaven, speak the language of Heaven and live according to the law of Heaven. As a Christian, you can say just like Jesus, "I am from above; I am not of this world."