The church in exile : living in hope after christendom / Lee Beach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beach, Lee, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--21st century.

Christianity.

Religious refugees--Biblical teaching.

Religious refugees.

United States--Church history--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks or Romans, the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history, however, the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with considerable influence and power. That age of Christendom is now over, and as Lee Beach demonstrates, this is something for which the church should be grateful. The "peace" of Christendom was a false one, and there is no comfortable normalcy to which we can or should return.Drawing on a close engagement with Old Testament and New Testament texts, The Church in Exile offers a biblical and practical theology for the church in a post-Christian age. Beach helps the people of God today to develop a hopeful and prophetic imagination, a theology responsive to its context, and an exilic identity marked by faithfulness to God?s mission in the world.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword by Walter Brueggemann""; ""Introduction: Exile and Life in a Post-Christian World""; ""Part I: A Theology of Exile""; ""1 Exile as a Motif for the Church Today""; ""2 Exile in the Old Testament""; ""3 Esther as Advice for Exiles""; ""4 Daniel as Advice for Exiles""; ""5 Jonah as Advice for Exiles?""; ""6 Jesus and Exile in the Early Church""; ""7 The Exilic Wisdom of 1 Peter""; ""Part II: The Practices of Exile""; ""8 Leading the Church in Exile: Generating Hope""

""9 Thinking Like Exiles: A Responsive Theology""""10 Holiness: An Exilic Identity""; ""11 Exilic Mission: Engaging the Culture as Exiles""; ""12 The Hope of Restoration: A New Home for Exiles""; ""Conclusion: Converting the Church""; ""Author Index""; ""Subject Index""; ""Scripture Index""; ""Praise for The Church in Exile""; ""About the Author""; ""More Titles from InterVarsity Press""; ""Academic Textbook Selector""

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780830897025

083089702X

OCLC:

900606557