The Church in Exile: Living in Hope After Christendom Contributor(s): Beach, Lee (Author), Brueggemann, Walter (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0830840664 ISBN-13: 9780830840663 Publisher: IVP Academic
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: January 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - General - Religion | Christian Theology - Ecclesiology - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
Dewey: 270 |
LCCN: 2014034483 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.75 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
Features: Bibliography, Index |
Review Citations: Library Journal 03/01/2015 pg. 76 |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beach, Lee: - Lee Beach (PhD, McMaster Divinity College) is assistant professor of Christian ministry and director of ministry formation at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. He has pastored for over twenty years with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada. |
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