States of Exile

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States of Exile is written by Alain Epp Weaver and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0836197909 (ISBN 10) and 9780836197907 (ISBN 13).

Alain Epp Weaver offers a political theology of exile which understands diaspora and return not as irreducible opposites but as together integral dimensions of the church's witness for the shalom of the city. Through critical conversations with John Howard Yoder, Edward Said, Karl Barth, Daniel Boyarin, and the Palestinian refugee experience, Epp Weaver explores how the church as a community in exile must learn to be theologically "not in charge." The church cultivates a receptiveness to the inbreaking of God's Spirit from beyond its walls.