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The Home of God is a powerful intervention into the troubled ways we think about life in places and spacesnational, civic, and ecclesial. Like two highly skilled physicians, Volf and McAnnally-Linz diagnose our sickness and offer a compelling theological vision for how to think about and create home. At heart, this is a beautiful theological reflection on the significance of home that steers away from both the idolatry and the apathy that afflict so much thinking about home. I doubt this book will ever go out of print.
Willie James Jennings , Yale University
Most modern Christians imagine that the gospel is about God rescuing souls from this world to go and live with him somewhere else. The Bible, however, insists that God wants to come and make his home with usand that he has launched this project through Jesus and the Spirit. The present book, a shining example of systematic theologians actually reading the Bible instead of plundering it for texts to redeploy within other narratives, argues its case through detailed, suggestive exegesis of three central biblical texts (Exodus, John, and Revelation). The result is a vision that is neither Augustines spiritualized focus on God alone nor Hegels dangerous elision of God and the world but a rich vision of rescued and restored human beings living with joyful purpose within a gloriously renewed creation. A remarkable book!
N. T. Wright , former Bishop of Durham; University of St. Andrews; Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Jesus Christ is God come to dwell among humans, to be, to speak, and to act for the life of the world (John 6:51). Taking its mandate from the character and mission of God, Christian theologys task is to discern, articulate, and commend visions of flourishing life in light of Gods self-revelation in Jesus Christ. The Theology for the Life of the World series features texts that do just that.
Human life is diverse and multifaceted, and so will be the books in this series. Some will focus on one specific aspect of life. Others will elaborate expansive visions of human persons, social life, or the world in relation to God. All will share the conviction that theology is vital to exploring the character of true life in diverse settings and orienting us toward it. No task is greater than for each of us and all of us together to discern and pursue the flourishing of all in Gods creation. These books are meant as a contribution to that task.
2022 by Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Published by Brazos Press
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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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To Phil and Patty Love,
faithful friends and consummate hosts
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Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Abbreviations
Prelude: The Arrows of Our Longing
Overture: A Story of Home
Part 1: Exodus
1. Out of the House of Bondage
2. Life in Gods Household
Part 2: The Word of Life
3. God Coming Home
4. Life and Light
Part 3: The Spirit of Life
5. Coming Home
6. Life in the Household
Part 4: The Fullness of Life
7. The Transition
8. Babylon
Postlude: The Choice
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
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The Arrows of Our Longing
No keen observation is required to see that something is amiss in the world. More than somethingmany things. That much is obvious. So obvious, in fact, that its all too easy to find oneself thinking that things are especially, uniquely awry. That they have never been worse. Narratives of crisis and decline do offer their own sickly sort of comfort, but pseudo-romantic nostalgia is a Sirens song. Many things have always been amiss, and we gain nothing from a quantitative accounting of the degrees of amiss-ness at various times and places. In an important sense, everything is awry and has been awry, the primordial and indestructible goodness of the creation notwithstanding. There is an abiding out-of-jointness to things, witnessed (but not exhausted) by the abiding disquietude of human hearts. The pressing need isnt that we accurately divine an overall trend line in the course of history but that we carefully discern how things are in fact awrythe texture of our dislocationhere and now.
Beneath or alongside or mingled with the disquietude, perhaps you have felt an amorphous but insistent longinga yearning for truer modes of belonging, for fulsome forms of resonance that do not depend for their depth or intensity on the thrill of novelty, fascination with the forbidden, or the gravity of violence. In a word, a longing for home .
Much of the awryness of our sociocultural contexts thwarts this longing for homeor twists it toward exclusionary visions of home, most virulently exemplified in nationalist and identitarian cultural and political projects. Technological change outpaces our ability to observe, much less understand, its effects. The planet, the only home we earthlings have, convulses from the wounds of decades of unrestrained industrial production and often-avaricious Increasingly, its sinking in just how many of our homes were builtare still being built on places and histories of violence and injustice.
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