Immigrant Neighbors among Us: Immigration across Theological Traditions - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1625643764 ISBN 13: 9781625643766

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2015

Synopsis

How do different Christian denominations in the United States approach immigration issues? In Immigrant Neighbors among Us, U.S. Hispanic scholars creatively mine the resources of their theological traditions to reflect on one of the most controversial issues of our day. Representative theologians from Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Methodist/Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and Independent Evangelical church families show how biblical narratives, historical events, systematic frameworks, ethical principles, and models of ministry shape their traditions' perspectives on immigrant neighbors, law, and reform. Each chapter provides questions for dialogue.

About this title

About the Author:

M. Daniel Carroll R. is Distinguished Professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary, Denver, Colorado, and adjunct professor at El Seminario Teológico Centroamericano, Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is the author of Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible (2013).

Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, where he holds the Werner R.H. and Elizabeth Ringger Krause Chair for Hispanic Ministries and is Director of the Center for Hispanic Studies. He is the author of Receiver, Bearer, and Giver of God's Spirit: Jesus' Life in the Spirit as a Lens for Theology and Life (2015).

Review:

"Immigrant Neighbors among Us is a model of relevant theological scholarship from different traditions shedding light on a common critical challenge in an atmosphere of collegiality and trust in the interest of God-pleasing outcomes to the benefit of God's most vulnerable and needy. . . Immigrant Neighbors is a small contribution to understanding how the real work of theology can take place to meaningfully minister to the "least of these my brothers" today." Douglas R. Groll, Concordia Journal 42/1 (2016): 87-89.

"The different denominational perspectives of each chapter are interesting to learn from for all readers and model the ecumenical collaboration that is needed for the pressing social problems of our time. But the individual chapters offer a particularly valuable resource for churches within those traditions. . . . The book is valuable reading for activists, social workers and churches working with immigrants, and deserves priority position in reading lists for courses on migration, social justice and local contextual/Hispanic theology." Excerpt from book review by Darren Cronshaw, International Journal of Public Theology 10 (2016) 510-511. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1625643764
• ISBN 13: 9781625643766
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162
• Editor: Carroll R. M. Daniel