Christianity and migration : a Christian theology of migration for our age / Peter C. Phan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phan, Peter C., 1943- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This book essays a (not the) Christian theology of migration. The phenomenon of human migration, that is, the movement of people to and settlement-temporary or permanent-in a new area or country, its causes and reasons, and its historical, anthropological, social, political, legal, and cultural dimensions have been widely studied and reasonably well understood, and the next chapter will discuss them in detail. By contrast, theology as an academic discipline seems least capable of illuminating this human phenomenon. It appears to most people outside the church and its educational institutions to be at best an esoteric subject and at worst a convoluted and useless mumbo-jumbo, especially when liberally sprinkled with Greek and Latin phrases. Why not leave the study of migration to scholars in history, sociology, anthropology, economics, politics, and law, who, albeit no less infected with highfalutin language than theologians, do at least try to offer practical policies and effective strategies, either for or against immigration?"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Christian theology in the age of migration: the challenges of migration to the understanding of the christian faith

Human mobility and global migrations: migration as a permanent feature of being human

Categories of migration and types of migrants: the complex reality of contemporary migration

Religion(s) and migration: how religions induce migration and how migration transforms religions

Migration and the shaping of world christianity: how migration transformed christianity into a global religion

God the father, the primordial migrant: deus migrator, the beginning and the end of migration

A christology for our age of migration: jesus the paradigmatic migrant

The holy spirit, the power of migration: the agency of migrants

Christianity as an institutional migrant: a church existing in the interstices

Worship and popular devotions: sacramental and devotional life of migrants

The ethics of mutual hospitality: migrants as guests and hosts

Home land, foreign land, our land: a christian theology of place in migration

Migration and memory: the moral obligation to remember

Epilogue: people on the move: migration and eschatology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed April 21, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Phan, Peter C., 1943- Christianity and migration.

ISBN:

9780190082284

0190082283

9780190082307

0190082305

OCLC:

1535746996

Publisher Number:

CIPO000263790

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license