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Author: Susanna Snyder ,
Agnes M. Brazal ,
Joshua Ralston
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 4.483kg
ISBN: 9781137553003
ISBN 10: 1137553006
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 30 November 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The gospels tell us that Jesus had no house of his own, and nowhere to lay his head. In his childhood he was a refugee in Egypt, fleeing persecution. In his adult life, as he taught, he moved from place to place and house to house. Jesus was, it seems, a permanently displaced person. Central to the gospel is the idea that we are all aliens and strangers - yet to God, friends. This remarkable book - Church in an Age of Global Migration - is vivid, wise and imaginative, and makes a highly significant contribution to our understanding of the church today. It is a rich and rewarding blend of practical and contextual theology. It deserves to be widely read and deeply engaged with. - The Very Revd. Martyn Percy, Dean, Christ Church, Oxford, UK This welcome anthology makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of publications on a global phenomenon reshaping continents. Covering new ground, the diverse essays reflect complex experiences of migrations, entertaining these particularities as loci for theology, liturgy, and pastoral practices. In this way peoples on the move reconfigure space, place, and diaspora in ways that raise questions about what it means to be church; what it means to be in relation ecumenically and interreligiously; and what it means to be a people in motion and at rest. - Carmen Nanko-Fernandez, Professor of Hispanic Theology and Ministry, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, USA Church in an Age of Global Migration is an impressive reimagination of the theological self-understanding of church in the context of migration and a critical shift from understanding church as provider of humanitarian services to church as moving Body of Christ - embodied, yet mobile; dynamic, yet prophetic, a living, breathing, and growing community en route toward the fullness of the Reign of God. This volume is a must-have resource for pastors, practitioners, activists, ecclesial leaders, scholars, students, social ethicists, and formers of public policies who wish to be informed of the tasks and opportunities, the challenges and promises of migration as the way of envisaging and envisioning church and society in the context of globalization. - Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ, Jesuit School of Theology and Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations, Hekima University College, Kenya
Author Information
Susanna Snyder is Assistant Director, Catherine of Siena Virtual College, and Tutor in Theology at the University of Roehampton, UK. She is also a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent's Park College, Oxford, UK. Joshua Ralston is Lecturer in Muslim-Christian Relations at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK. He has worked with refugee resettlement in the United States for a number of years and has published essays and chapters on ecclesiology and political theology. Agnes M. Brazal is Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator, and Director of the Office of Research and Publications at St. Vincent School of Theology, Adamson University, Philippines. She is past president of DaKaTeo (Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines) and Former Coordinator of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia.
