Hospitality and the Other Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighbor

Name: Hospitality and the Other Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighbor
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ISBN: 9781570757723

ISBN-10: 1570757720

ISBN-13: 9781570757723

Edition: 2008

Authors: Amos Yong

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Building on a life of careful Biblical scholarship and insights into the practices of Jesus and the early Church, launched on the day of Pentecost, Amos Yong shows (1) that the religious "other" is not a mere object for conversion but a neighbor to whom hospitality must be extended and from whom Christians should be open to receiving hospitality; and (2) that the practices of the Christian community must reflect this insight if they are to be faithful to the trinitarian God of Jesus Christ. This book is pivotal in the shift to a new paradigm of theology of religion, interreligious interchange, and the nature of missionary theory and practice. Yong's argument is all the more impressive in…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 169
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Amos Yong is J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is most recently the author Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighbor.




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