2nd Hand - I Was A Stranger: A Christian Theology Of Hospitality By Arthur Sutherland

2nd hand book in good condition although there are a few small creases round the edges.and page 1 corner has been cut off to remove personal details. Published 2006

Arthur Sutherland places before us our fear of meeting the “other” and the “stranger” in an increasingly global, and frequently dangerous, village. Various social, political, and historical factors have conspired to leave us in a veritable crisis: the decline of hospitality.

Why is this a crisis? Why should we practice hospitality? What is it about Christian theology that compels us to think about hospitality in the first place? Sutherland offers a passionate plea to recover and rediscover hospitality, and to respond to the divine appeal to welcome the stranger

Chapter

1. Poor, Wayfaring stranger: Christ, Thurman, Du Bois and the spirituals
2. The Death of Hostility: Strangers, enemies and reconciliation
3. She Laid It on Us: guests and hosts in feminist perspective
4. Remember my chains: hospitality and eschatology in prison life
5. Hospitality: the practice by which the church stands or falls?

paperback 15x22.5cm