To Aliens and Exiles
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To Aliens and Exiles

Preaching the New Testament as Minority-Group Rhetoric in a Post-Christendom World

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To Aliens and Exiles

Preaching the New Testament as Minority-Group Rhetoric in a Post-Christendom World

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Over the space of a generation, Christianity in the Western world has gone from occupying a central place in the wider society to being eyed with increasing suspicion and, in some places, outright hostility. Although the church has always been a minority group, in the past decade or so it has become reawakened to that reality--and to the similarities it shares with the first followers of Jesus for whom the New Testament was written. In this book, Tim MacBride shows how New Testament texts functioned as rhetoric for the marginalized minority groups they addressed, encouraging hearers to resist the pressure to conform to the majority culture, yet in a way that remained attractively different to outsiders. He offers suggestions for how Christians today--and preachers in particular--can use and apply the New Testament's minority-group rhetoric to speak into our own increasingly marginalized experience. Such preaching needs to guard against either being shaped by culture or isolating preacher and hearers against culture. It must instead champion the call of New Testament authors to a middle way--a call for communities of "aliens and exiles" to engage with culture by living out an attractive difference.

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Publisher
Cascade Books
Year
2020
ISBN
9781532696855
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Ministry

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Preaching to Aliens and Exiles
  4. Chapter 1: The Need for Attractive Difference
  5. Chapter 2: Maintaining Attractive Difference
  6. Chapter 3: 1 Peter To Aliens and Exiles
  7. Chapter 4: Hebrews The City That Is to Come
  8. Chapter 5: 1 John They Went Out from Us
  9. Chapter 6: James Double-Minded
  10. Chapter 7: Revelation Faithful and True
  11. Chapter 8: Philippians Citizens of Heaven
  12. Chapter 9: 1 Corinthians Are You not Worldly?
  13. Chapter 10: 1 Thessalonians How You Turned from Idols
  14. Chapter 11: Colossians Let No One Take You Captive
  15. Chapter 12: Matthew’s Gospel Here Are My Mother and My Brothers
  16. Chapter 13: John’s Gospel If the World Hates You . . .
  17. Chapter 14: Luke–Acts Most Excellent Theophilus
  18. Chapter 15: Wisdom from African-American Preachers It’s Gonna Be Hard for Y’all
  19. Chapter 16: Conclusions What Next?
  20. Bibliography