Description Description: Through brilliant new interpretations of biblical exiles, Daniel Smith-Christopher shows their experience as the most apt model for the Church as witnesses for the peace and justice of God in a strange land.
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Smith-Christopher studied theology at the Mennonite Biblical Seminary and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. the best of biblical scholarship currently available." --Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn, Germany About the Contributor(s): Daniel L. . .
Well written and suggestive . . . a brilliant mind at work demonstrating how the social sciences can illuminate the scriptural text . .
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Schwarzschild, Professor of Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Washington University, St. this study proves, again, that a fearless social understanding of the Bible and its Religion produces the kind of universal moral human fellowship about which namby-pamby interdenominationalism only waxes deceptively rhetorical." --Steven S. . .
Daniel Smith-Christopher crystallizes a Religion of nonconformity to the world as it is, of nonviolent, ethical activism toward the world as God wants it to be, and of scriptural autonomy for diverse, mutually respectful, historic cultures . .
Roberts, Professor-at-Large, George Fox University ." .
Religious leaders will appreciate this book for offering credible Christian theology to people who must live faithfully where they are, under some kind of Babylonian oppression." --Arthur O.
This theology of exile enhances the power of the cross and strengthens the believing community.
Smith-Christopher\'s book, however, shows exile to be the key biblical model.
Such theologies often nurture corruptions of power.
Civil Religion and liberation theologies consider exodus the key biblical model.
Scholars will appreciate his creative sociological interface between modern oppressed groups and Israel in captivity.
Endorsements: "Smith presents the biblical exile as a model for godly faith.
Description Description: Through brilliant new interpretations of biblical exiles, Daniel Smith-Christopher shows their experience as the most apt model for the Church as witnesses for the peace and justice of God in a strange land
