Our time has been dubbed the “Age of Migration” and as such it
urgently calls for a reinterpretation of the Christian faith in a way
that speaks both from and to the experiences of migrants. This book
offers a fresh and systematic re-articulation of the fundamental
Christian beliefs in the perspective of migration. Peter C. Phan, a
leading Catholic theologian, offers here the first attempt to
elaborate a comprehensive Christian theology of migration. The book
begins by discussing the nature and method of Christian theology,
human mobility as a permanent feature of human existence, the
categories of migrants and types of migration, and the intrinsic
relations between migration and religion, especially Christianity; it
argues that Christian mission induces migration and migration
transforms Christianity. The second part presents a new theology of
God: God the Father is the Primordial Migrant, God the Son the
Paradigmatic Migrant, and God the Holy Spirit the Personal Power of
Migration. The book goes on to discuss the Church as an Institutional
Migrant, worship and popular devotions in the life of migrants, the
ethics of mutual hospitality, the theology of land, the duty of
migrants to remember where they come from, why they must remember, and
how they must remember. It ends with reflections on the connection
between migration and eschatology. _Christianity and Migration_ offers
a new approach to a pressing moral issue.
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A Christian Theology of Migration for Our Age
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780190082291
Publisert
2025
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Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic US
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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