The Post-Racial Church: A Biblical Framework for Multiethnic Reconciliation - Softcover

Mathews, Kenneth; Park, M. Sydney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0825435862 ISBN 13: 9780825435867

Verlag: KREGEL PUBN, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In what has arguably been called“post-racial America,” how is thechurch doing at actually being post- racial? Have churches laid asideassumptions and prejudices? How does the church today function in its role of reconciliation?
In The Post-Racial Church,Kenneth Mathews and Sydney Parkpresent ascriptural framework for how the church ought to operate as a multiethnic culture. If the church is called to the work of reconciliation,
if the universal church is multiethnic,and if every tribe and tongue will praise God together in the end, thenshouldn’t individual churches reflectthattruth today?
In this book pastors will find biblical, philosophical, and practical reasons forchallenging the local church to become a multiethnic congregation that joins together in worship of the God who calls each of us.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Kenneth Mathews (PhD, University of Michigan) is Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Birming- ham, Alabama, where he has taught Old Testament Studies and Biblical Interpretation for twenty years. Mathews's major publications include the original publication of a Dead Sea Scroll, The Leviticus Scroll, a two- volume commentary on the book of Genesis, and a preaching commentary on Leviticus. He is currently under- taking a commentary on Joshua.

. Sydney Park (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Assistant Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Birmingham, Alabama where she teaches Biblical Interpretation and New Testament studies. She is the author of The Concept of Submission Within the Godhead and the Church in Philippians: An Exegetical and Theological Examination of the Concept of Submission in Philippians 2 and 3. Her interest in the biblical teaching of submission stems from the experiences of her cultural background as a Korean- American, atheistic and feminist beliefs during her college years, and her ensuing post-conversion struggle to understand the countercultural notion of submission in Scripture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: KREGEL PUBN
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0825435862
• ISBN 13: 9780825435867
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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