Full Description
The global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year. At the same time, Western Christians' sympathy toward refugees is increasingly overshadowed by concerns about personal and national security, economics, and culture. We urgently need a perspective that understands both Scripture and current political realities and that can be applied at the levels of the church, the nation, and the globe.
In Refuge Reimagined, Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship. God's people, they argue, are consistently called to extend kinship—a mutual responsibility and solidarity—to those who are marginalized and without a home. Drawing on their respective expertise in Old Testament studies and international relations, the two brothers engage a range of disciplines to demonstrate how this ethic is consistently conveyed throughout the Bible and can be practically embodied today.
Glanville and Glanville apply the kinship ethic to issues such as the current mission of the church, national identity and sovereignty, and possibilities for a cooperative global response to the refugee crisis. Challenging the fear-based ethic that often motivates Christian approaches, they envision a more generous, creative, and hopeful way forward. Refuge Reimagined will equip students, activists, and anyone interested in refugee issues to understand the biblical model for communities and how it can transform our world.
Contents
Foreword by Matthew Soerens
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Kinship with Refugees
Part One: The Bible
2. Kinship with the Stranger
3. Refuge Under Yahweh's Wings
4. Jesus' Kinship
Part Two: The Church
5. Creative Kinship in the Church
Part Three: The Nation
6. Neighbor-Loving Nations
7. Stranger-Loving Sovereigns
8. Relinquishing Fear, Nurturing Compassion, Institutionalizing Love
Part Four: The World
9. Hope for Global Kinship
10. Global Kinship with Refugees
Conclusion
11. Kinship Creativity
Discussion Questions
Further Reading
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index
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