Aliens in Your Native Land: 1 Peter and the Formation of Christian Identity - Couverture souple

Bailey, Warner M.

 
9781725268487: Aliens in Your Native Land: 1 Peter and the Formation of Christian Identity

Synopsis

Living as an alien in one’s native land is a familiar reality to marginalized communities. Cultural, economic, and political shifts can cause people to become alienated by a system of greed, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and media manipulation.
How can Christians persist under a sustained threat within a social order diametrically opposed to them? This question drives Warner Bailey’s investigation of 1 Peter. The mature Christology of 1 Peter yields a profile of Christian identity. This picture is funded by texts from the Book of the Twelve (Hosea-Malachi) and is counter-intuitive, in that it is able to create new initiatives for behavior that offer hope for redemption in the midst of oppression.
Bailey explores how 1 Peter has been used in shaping the life of modern “aliens,” such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, living in his own country under the oppression of Nazism, and feminist, black, immigrant, and LGBTQIA+ readers. Placing 1 Peter within the crisis in U.S. political and economic life opens up fresh implications for faithful ecclesiastical practice and personal witness.

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À propos des auteurs

Warner M. Bailey is director of Presbyterian Studies at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, and theologian-in-residence at St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth, Texas.

Stephen V. Sprinkle is Associate Professor of Practical Theology, and Director of Field Education and Supervised Ministry at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas. He is the first openly gay scholar to be tenured in the school's history.

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9781725268494: Aliens in Your Native Land: 1 Peter and the Formation of Christian Identity

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ISBN 10 :  1725268493 ISBN 13 :  9781725268494
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2020
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