A Biblical Theology of Exile

A Biblical Theology of Exile
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451405798

The Christian church continues to seek ethical and spiritual models from the period of Israel's monarchy and has avoided the gravity of the Babylonian exile. Against this tradition, the author argues that the period of focus for the canonical construction of biblical thought is precisely the exile. Here the voices of dissent arose and articulated words of truth in the context of failed power.

Rebels and Exiles

Rebels and Exiles
Author: Matthew S. Harmon
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830843825

We all share an experience of exile—of longing for our true home. In this ESBT volume, Matthew S. Harmon explores how the theme of sin and exile is developed throughout Scripture, tracing a common pattern of human rebellion, God's judgment, and the hope of restored relationship, beginning with the first humans and concluding with the end of exile in a new creation.

The Church in Exile

The Church in Exile
Author: Lee Beach
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 083089702X

The church in North America today lives in a post-Christian society. Lee Beach helps the people of God today to develop a hopeful and prophetic imagination, a theology responsive to its context, and an exilic identity marked by faithfulness to God?s mission in the world.

Exile: A Conversation with N. T. Wright

Exile: A Conversation with N. T. Wright
Author: James M. Scott
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2017-07-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830890009

N. T. Wright is well known for his view that the majority of Second Temple Jews saw themselves as living within an ongoing exile. This book engages a lively conversation with this idea, beginning with a lengthy thesis from Wright, responses from eleven New Testament scholars, and a concluding essay from Wright responding to his interlocutors.

Hopeful Imagination

Hopeful Imagination
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451419627

Professor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel's prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to enter into exile, to be in exile, and to depart out of exile. He addresses three major prophetic traditions: Jeremiah (the pathos of God), Ezekiel (the holiness of God), and 2 Isaiah (the newness of God). This literature is seen to contain the theological resources for handling both brokenness and surprise with freedom, courage, and imagination. Throughout, Brueggemann demonstrates how these resources offer vitality for ministry today.

The Religion of the Landless

The Religion of the Landless
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2015-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1608994783

Through brilliant new interpretations of biblical exiles, Daniel Smith-Christopher shows their experience as the most apt model for the Church as witnesses for the peace and justice of God in a strange land.

Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions

Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions
Author: Bruce D. Chilton
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004497714

The exiles of Israel and Judah cast a long shadow over the biblical text and the whole subsequent history of Judaism. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the theme of exile for the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, critical study of the Old Testament has, at least since Wellhausen, been dominated by the Babylonian exile of Judah. In 586 BC, several factors, including the destruction of Jerusalem, the cessation of the sacrificial cult and of the monarchy, and the experience of the exile, began to cause a transformation of Israelite religion which supplied the contours of the larger Judaic framework within which the various forms of Judaism, including the early Christian movement, developed. Given the importance of the exile to the development of Judaism and Christianity even to the present day, this volume delves into the conceptions of exile which contributed to that development during the formative period.

Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity

Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity
Author: Rebekah Merkle
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1944503528

The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much is indisputable. So, First-Wave feminists held rallies for women's suffrage. Second-Wave feminists marched for Prohibition, jobs, and abortion. Today, Third-Wave feminists stand firmly for nobody's quite sure what. But modern women--who use psychotherapeutic antidepressants at a rate never before seen in history--need liberating now more than ever. The truth is, feminists don't know what liberation is. They have led us into a very boring dead end. Eve in Exile sets aside all stereotypes of mid-century housewives, of China-doll femininity, of Victorians fainting, of women not allowed to think for themselves or talk to the men about anything interesting or important. It dismisses the pencil-skirted and stiletto-heeled executives of TV, the outspoken feminists freed from all that hinders them, the brave career women in charge of their own destinies. Once those fictionalized stereotypes are out of the way--whether they're things that make you gag or things you think look pretty fun--Christians can focus on real women. What did God make real women for?