Refugees: A New Testament Perspective

This study builds an argument for 'embrace' as an adequate Christian response to the refugee crisis. Against the 'church as homogenous unit' missiological theory of Donald McGavran and Peter Wagner, the author argues that the list of greetings in Romans 16 proves that at least so...

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1. VerfasserIn: Escobar, Samuel 1934- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: [2018]
In: Transformation
Jahr: 2018, Band: 35, Heft: 2, Seiten: 102-108
IxTheo Notationen:HC Neues Testament
NCC Sozialethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Romans 16
B Hospitality
B Embrace
B refugees in the New Testament
B migrant churches
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Zusammenfassung:This study builds an argument for 'embrace' as an adequate Christian response to the refugee crisis. Against the 'church as homogenous unit' missiological theory of Donald McGavran and Peter Wagner, the author argues that the list of greetings in Romans 16 proves that at least some of the house churches in Rome were mixed - migrants of different backgrounds living together. Thus Paul's exhortation to welcome one another.
ISSN:1759-8931
Enthält:Enthalten in: Transformation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0265378818782269