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The people of God throughout history have been a people of exile
and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks or
Romans, the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy
people in alien lands and under foreign rule. 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,
this is something for which the church should be grateful. The
"peace" of Christendom was a false one, and there is no comfortable
normalcy to which we can or should return. Drawing on a close
engagement with Old Testament and New Testament texts, The Church
in Exile offers a biblical and practical theology for the church in
a post-Christian age. Beach helps the people of God today to
develop a hopeful and prophetic imagination, a theology responsive
to its context, and an exilic identity marked by faithfulness to
God's mission in the world.
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