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Aliens and Sojourners

Author : Benjamin H. Dunning
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201817
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Aliens and Sojourners written by Benjamin H. Dunning and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-02-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Immigration Crisis

Author : James K. Hoffmeier
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 9781433506079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Immigration Crisis written by James K. Hoffmeier and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Welcoming the Stranger

Author : Matthew Soerens
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830885552
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Welcoming the Stranger written by Matthew Soerens and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Apostolic Fathers

Author : Michael W. Holmes
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080103468X
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Apostolic Fathers written by Michael W. Holmes and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

God and the Illegal Alien

Author : Robert W. Heimburger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110717662X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book God and the Illegal Alien written by Robert W. Heimburger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Resident Aliens

Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 0687361591
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Resident Aliens written by Stanley Hauerwas and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold and visionary book, two leading Christian thinkers explore the alien status of Christians in today's world. A provocative Christian assessment of culture and ministry for people who know that something is wrong.

Christians at the Border

Author : M. Daniel Carroll R.
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080103566X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Christians at the Border written by M. Daniel Carroll R. and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Still Time to Care

Author : Greg Johnson
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310116066
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Still Time to Care written by Greg Johnson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Bible and Borders

Author : M. Daniel Carroll R.
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493423533
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Bible and Borders written by M. Daniel Carroll R. and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Apocalypse of the Alien God

Author : Dylan M. Burns
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209222
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse of the Alien God written by Dylan M. Burns and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek?" Four hundred years later, a Christian emperor had ended the public teaching of subversive Platonic thought. When and how did this philosophical rupture occur? Dylan M. Burns argues that the fundamental break occurred in Rome, ca. 263, in the circle of the great mystic Plotinus, author of the Enneads. Groups of controversial Christian metaphysicians called Gnostics ("knowers") frequented his seminars, disputed his views, and then disappeared from the history of philosophy—until the 1945 discovery, at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of codices containing Gnostic literature, including versions of the books circulated by Plotinus's Christian opponents. Blending state-of-the-art Greek metaphysics and ecstatic Jewish mysticism, these texts describe techniques for entering celestial realms, participating in the angelic liturgy, confronting the transcendent God, and even becoming a divine being oneself. They also describe the revelation of an alien God to his elect, a race of "foreigners" under the protection of the patriarch Seth, whose interventions will ultimately culminate in the end of the world. Apocalypse of the Alien God proposes a radical interpretation of these long-lost apocalypses, placing them firmly in the context of Judeo-Christian authorship rather than ascribing them to a pagan offshoot of Gnosticism. According to Burns, this Sethian literature emerged along the fault lines between Judaism and Christianity, drew on traditions known to scholars from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Enochic texts, and ultimately catalyzed the rivalry of Platonism with Christianity. Plunging the reader into the culture wars and classrooms of the high Empire, Apocalypse of the Alien God offers the most concrete social and historical description available of any group of Gnostic Christians as it explores the intersections of ancient Judaism, Christianity, Hellenism, myth, and philosophy.

1, 2 Peter, Jude

Author : Thomas R. Schreiner
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805401377
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book 1, 2 Peter, Jude written by Thomas R. Schreiner and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in an ongoing series of esteemed and popular Bible commentary volumes based on the New International Version text.

Putting On a Gentle and Quiet Spirit

Author : Elizabeth George
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736931023
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Putting On a Gentle and Quiet Spirit written by Elizabeth George and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth George takes readers through a thought-provoking study of Peter's teachings on handling trials and persecutions, including: suffering for doing good; understanding the mysteries of God; and fanning the flame of faith. The special "heart response" sections offer readers suggestions to help them apply biblical truths to their lives and focus on the amazing glory God promises.

Christianity and Conversion among Migrants

Author : Darren Carlson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004443460
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Conversion among Migrants written by Darren Carlson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christianity and Conversion among Migrants, Darren Carlson explores the faith, beliefs, and practices of migrants and refugees as well as the Christian organizations serving them between 2014–2018 in Athens, Greece. This is the first major study of migrant faith communities and refugee centers conducted in Athens. The study traces the travel stories of participants as they leave their home countries and migrate to Athens. Darren Carlson discusses the ways evangelical and Pentecostal Christians served migrants along their journey, how churches and specific refugee centers served and proclaimed the gospel, and the impact Christian witness had on migrants, particularly Muslims, who were converting to evangelical Christian faith.

Undocumented

Author : Aviva Chomsky
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807001686
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Undocumented written by Aviva Chomsky and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American—revealing the ever-shifting nature of status in the U.S.—in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change (New York Times) In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. The result is a powerful testament of the complex, contradictory, and ever-shifting nature of status in America.

The Way of the Fathers

Author : Mike Aquilina
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1612781829
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Fathers written by Mike Aquilina and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2000-02-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pious to the practical, the reflections of the Fathers of the Church cover virtually every aspect of the Christian life. Noted author Mike Aquilina has compiled their ancient axioms into a concise collection of comments designed for busy, modern readers. Pray with the poetry of St. Gregory Nazianzen. Find clear direction in the practical advice of St. Jerome. And, let your heart turn toward the heavenly Jerusalem, following the 1,000 timeless treasures in The Way of the Fathers. "A power-packed collection of the Fathers' concise, clear, and challenging statements on issues still relevant to Christians today. A helpful tool, for anyone seeking to live the authentic Gospel life as understood by the first Christians."

Immigration Statistics

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Immigration Statistics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Stranger in Medieval Society

Author : F. R. P. Akehurst
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816630313
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger in Medieval Society written by F. R. P. Akehurst and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.