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The church in exile : living in hope after christendom /

"The people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. For much of its history, however, the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with considerable influence and power. That age of Christendom is now over, and as Lee Beach demonstrates, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beach, Lee, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Downers Grove : InterVarsity Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Exile and life in a post-Christian world
  • A theology of exile
  • Exile as a motif for the church
  • Exile in the Old Testament
  • Esther as advice for exiles
  • Daniel as advice for exiles
  • Jonah as advice for exiles?
  • Jesus and exile in the early church
  • The exilic wisdom of 1 Peter
  • The practices of exile
  • Leading the church in exile: generating hope
  • Thinking like exiles: a responsive theology
  • Holiness: an exilic identity
  • Exilic mission: engaging the culture as exiles
  • Restoration: a new home for exiles
  • Converting the church.