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By Peter C. Phan, Elaine Padilla

Christianities in Migration trips via continents, areas, international locations, and villages, to ensure that the a number of tales of migrants to function theological mirrored image of numerous sorts of indigenization of Christianity. It seeks to supply a Christian and theological reaction to the current developments of globalization and migration.

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HANCILES prominent model of biblical religion, declares unequivocally, “We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors” (1 Chron. 29:15). And in the Book of Psalms (39:12) in which the experience of displacement and sojourn often marks the life of the believer, we read the plaintive supplication, “Hear my prayer, Lord . . ” It is also of utmost significance that God of Israel enjoined specific treatment of the migrant alien as a hallmark of the covenant relationship and a testimony of His people’s redemption (Lev.

Histories of the early church are of course legion. However, studies on migration as a social phenomenon during the patristic era are scarce. The most useful single-volume histories of the early church include: Henry Chadwick, The Early Church (London: Penguin Books, 1967); The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001); W. H. C. Frend, The Rise of Christianity (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984); and Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom, 2nd ed.

PHAN they bless; when they are affronted, they still pay due respect. When they do good, they are punished as evildoers; undergoing punishment, they rejoice because they are brought to life. They are treated by the Jews as foreigners [allophuloi], and are hunted down by the Greeks; and all the time those who hate them find it impossible to justify their enmity. To put it simply: What the soul is in the body, that Christians are in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world.

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