Saved by Faith and Hospitality
Joshua W. Jipp
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
2140 Oak Industrial Drive N.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49505
© 2017 Joshua W. Jipp
All rights reserved
Published 2017
isbn 978-0-8028-7505-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jipp, Joshua W., author.
Title: Saved by faith and hospitality / Joshua W. Jipp.
Description: Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index
Identifiers: LCCN 2017008739 | ISBN 9780802875051 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Hospitality—Religious aspects—Christianity. | Hospitality—Biblical teaching.
Classification: LCC BV4647.H67 J57 2017 | DDC 241/.671—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017008739
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Foreword by Christine Pohl
Introduction: Saved by Faith and Hospitality
1. Food, Stigma, and the Identity of the Church in Luke-Acts
2. Ecclesial Hospitality amidst Difference and Division in Paul
3. The Meaning of Human Existence and the Church’s Mission in the Gospel of John
4. Hospitality and the World: Overcoming Tribalism
5. Hospitality and the Immigrant: Overcoming Xenophobia
6. Hospitality and the Economy: Overcoming Greed
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Writings
The concept of hospitality has gained significant traction in the last couple of decades. Rescued from tame understandings that primarily associated it with hosting dinner parties and entertaining friends or business associates, it is once again being recognized as important theologically, morally, and socially. Numerous excellent books and articles have recently been written to recover, critique, and apply the practice of hospitality.
Many writers have looked at the biblical and historical tradition with fresh eyes. and they have recovered a remarkable number of ancient texts that address hospitality, finding in them a wonderfully rich resource. Sometimes, however, the concept of hospitality has been retrieved from these sources without much attention to the variety of assumptions and other practices within which ancient hospitality was embedded.
Concerns for persons who are vulnerable, as well as tensions between maintaining community identity and offering welcome to strangers, are apparent in some of the earliest biblical texts. Living between the mystery of hospitality as an encounter with God and the challenges of limited resources has occupied people of faith for millennia. The possibilities of encountering Jesus in the stranger and the risks of welcoming false teachers or ill-intentioned ...
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About Saved by Faith and HospitalityToo few Christians today, says Joshua Jipp, understand hospitality to strangers and the marginalized as an essential part of the church’s identity. In this book Jipp argues that God’s relationship to his people is fundamentally an act of hospitality to strangers, and that divine and human hospitality together are thus at the very heart of Christian faith. Jipp first provides a thorough interpretation of the major biblical texts related to the practice of hospitality to strangers, considering especially how these texts portray Christ as the divine host who extends God’s welcome to all people. Jipp then invites readers to consider how God’s hospitality sets the pattern for human hospitality, offering suggestions on how the practice of welcoming strangers can guide the church in its engagement with current social challenges, such as immigration, incarceration, racism, and more. |
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