Transformation
Volume 35, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 102-108

Refugees: A new testament perspective (Article)

Escobar S.*
  • a Facultad Protestante de Teología, Madrid, Spain, Palmer Theological Seminary, Valley Forge, PA, United States

Abstract

This study builds an argument for ‘embrace’ as an adequate Christian response to the refugee crisis. Against the ‘church as homogenous unit’ missiological theory of Donald McGavran and Peter Wagner, the author argues that the list of greetings in Romans 16 proves that at least some of the house churches in Rome were mixed – migrants of different backgrounds living together. Thus Paul’s exhortation to welcome one another. © The Author(s) 2018.

Author Keywords

hospitality Romans 16 Embrace Refugees in the new testament Migrant churches

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049636289&doi=10.1177%2f0265378818782269&partnerID=40&md5=e101fa9b865aba4a787b8b8cbc134303
DOI: 10.1177/0265378818782269
ISSN: 02653788
Original Language: English