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Arthur Sutherland
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Publisher
Abingdon Press
Published
November 2006
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Author
Arthur Sutherland
Book Format
paperback
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Published
November 2006
£14.49
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 3 days
I Was A Stranger
Today's Price £14.49
Arthur Sutherland places before us our fear of meeting the other and the stranger in an increasingly global, and frequently dangerous, village. Various social, political, and historical factors have conspired to leave us in a veritable crisis: the decline of hospitality. Why is this a crisis? Why should we practice hospitality? What is it about Christian theology that compels us to think about hospitality in the first place? Sutherland offers a passionate plea to recover and rediscover hospitality, and to respond to the divine appeal to welcome the stranger.
Therein lies the central concern of the book: that hospitality is not simply the practice of a virtue but is integral to the very nature of Christianity's position toward God, self, and the world it is at the very center of what it means to be a Christian and to think theologically. He offers a challenging definition of hospitality and calls us to a practice that is the virtue by which the church stands or falls.
Drawing on modern theologians (including Howard Thurman, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, Martin Luther King Jr., and Letty Russell) and considering American slavery, the Holocaust, feminism, and prisons, Sutherland eloquently presents a Christian theology of hospitality.
Author
Arthur Sutherland
Book Format
paperback
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Published
November 2006
Weight
159g
Page Count
104
Dimensions
161 x 226 x 9 mm
ISBN
9780687063246
ISBN-10
0687063248
Eden Code
121823
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Author/Creator: Arthur Sutherland
ISBN: 9780687063246
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Release Date: November 2006
Weight: 159g
Dimensions: 161 x 226 x 9 mm
Eden Code: 121823