Refuge reimagined : Biblical kinship in global politics /
Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : color illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Kinship with Refugees -- Part One: The Bible -- Kinship with the Stranger -- Refuge Under Yahweh's Wings -- Jesus' Kinship -- Part Two: The Church -- Creative Kinship in the Church -- Part Three: The Nation -- Neighbor-Loving Nations -- Stranger-Loving Sovereigns -- Relinquishing Fear, Nurturing Compassion, Institutionalizing Love -- Part Four: The World -- Hope for Global Kinship -- Global Kinship with Refugees -- Conclusion -- Kinship Creativity.
"Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship. Challenging the fear-based ethic that often motivates Christian approaches, they demonstrate how this ethic is consistently conveyed throughout the Bible and can be practically embodied today"--
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Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Christianity. Church work with immigrants. Church work with refugees. Ethnicity--Religious aspects--Christianity. Kinship--Religious aspects--Christianity.