The Stranger S Welcome

Author : Steve Reece
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0472103865

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The Stranger's Welcome by Steve Reece Pdf

For more than two millennia, Homer's poetry has stirred the imagination of its readers. Originally recited by traveling bards, these poems are exceptionally rich in conventional elements that helped the poets remember works thousands of lines long. As dynamic ingredients of oral poetry, these elements have accrued deep meaning, and for a well-informed audience they call significant associations to mind. In The Stranger's Welcome, Steve Reece treats eighteen "hospitality" scenes in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns and reveals key aspects and standard elements of such scenes. Further, he demonstrates how Homeric listeners might comprehend the new and innovative by relying on their knowledge of the conventional and familiar. This tension between conventional and innovative, between the traditional background and the individual performance, distinguishes the aesthetics of Homeric poetry. Of interest to students and scholars of oral poetry, folklore, Homeric literature, and Greek literature in general, The Stranger's Welcome offers a practical approach whereby a reading audience may understand a hearing one.

Author : Matthew Soerens,Jenny Yang,Leith Anderson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830885558

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Welcoming the Stranger by Matthew Soerens,Jenny Yang,Leith Anderson Pdf

Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten List Immigration is one of the most complicated issues of our time. Voices on all sides argue strongly for action and change. Christians find themselves torn between the desire to uphold laws and the call to minister to the vulnerable. In this book World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants' experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible, and just as they offer concrete ways for you and your church to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors. This revised edition includes new material on refugees and updates in light of changes in political realities.

Author : Asenath Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015011704106

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Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger by Asenath Nicholson Pdf

Author : Thomas Linley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1786
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022697118

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The Strangers at Home, a Comic Opera [written by J. Cobb] ... Selected&Composed by T. Linley by Thomas Linley Pdf

Author : Patrick R. Keifert
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451415508

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Welcoming the Stranger by Patrick R. Keifert Pdf

This book is an astute rethinking of theology and pastoral ministry that overcomes sentimental notions of hospitality.

Author : Andrew L Fitz-Gibbon,Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781351295543

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Welcoming Strangers by Andrew L Fitz-Gibbon,Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Pdf

Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. They developed a method, "loving nonviolent re-parenting," to best care for foster children. "Re-parenting" represents the complex task of caring for children who have been parented already, often inadequately, and mostly involving physical, emotional, and/or systemic violence. Welcoming Strangers analyses the violence foster children suffer and raises ethical questions—why violence is morally problematic, what philosophers have said about human nature and violence, and what moral good should be pursued in childcare. Drawing on an ancient form of ethics, sometimes known as "virtue ethics," this book focuses on the traits required to become a loving, nonviolent re-parent. The Fitz-Gibbons tell of their journey in the foster care system with candour, humour, and grace. Covering subjects as diverse as teens, sex, discipline, and the carer's own well-being, they describe the difficulties of foster care and the sometimes impossible task of restoring dignity and joy to young lives deeply damaged by violence. This book will be of immense help to foster carers, adopters, caseworkers, case managers, policymakers, and any parent who wants to integrate nonviolent practices into the way they care for children.

Author : Catherine Upchurch
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814645994

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Hospitality, Welcoming the Stranger by Catherine Upchurch Pdf

Hospitality was a hallmark of the ancient Mediterranean world and, according to St. Paul, is among the characteristics to be found in the Body of Christ, the church. True hospitality begins with the recognition of human dignity and the desire to respond effectively to human need. Here Catherine Upchurch, recognized nationally for her keen ability to make the Scriptures come alive for Catholics, explores how three biblical settings encourage us to be people of welcome.

Author : Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197515907

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The Strangers in Our Midst by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen Pdf

Evangelical Christians in the United States today are known for their hard-line, restrictive approach to immigration and refugees. This book shows that this has not always been the case and is, in fact, a relatively new position. The history of evangelical involvement with refugees and immigrants has been overlooked in the current debate. Since the early 1960s, evangelical Christians have been integral players in US immigration and refugee policy. Motivated by biblical teachings to "welcome the stranger," they have helped tens of thousands of newcomers by acting as refugee sponsors or providing legalization assistance to undocumented immigrants. Until the 1990s, many evangelicals did not distinguish between documented and undocumented newcomers all were to be loved and welcomed. In the last decade of the twentieth century, however, a growing anti-immigrant consensus in American society grew alongside evangelicals' political alignment with the Republican Party, leading to a rethinking of their theology. Following the GOP's lead, evangelicals increasingly emphasized the need to obey American law, which many argued undocumented immigrants failed to do. Today, the evangelical movement is more divided than ever about immigration policy. While conservative evangelicals are often immigration hard-liners, many progressive and Latinx evangelicals hope to convince their fellow evangelicals to take a more welcoming approach. The Strangers in Our Midst argues that the key to understanding evangelicals' divided approaches to immigration is to look at both their theology and their politics. Both of which have shaped howand especially to whomthey extend their biblical values of hospitality.

Author : Pope Francis
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337699

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A Stranger and You Welcomed Me by Pope Francis Pdf

This collection of the Pope's writings and talks on the plight of migrants and refugees shows his deep knowledge and concern. It points out how followers of Christ are obliged to understand the root causes of mass movement of peoples and to act in light of their suffering.

Author : Jennine Capó Crucet
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466865044

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Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Latino-themed Fiction 2016, Longlisted for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Named a best book of the season by Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, Bustle,NBC Latino and Men's Journal The arresting debut novel from award-winning writer Jennine Capó Crucet When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy-Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom-without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live. Amidst this turmoil, Lizet begins her first semester at Rawlings College, distracted by both the exciting and difficult moments of freshman year. But the privileged world of the campus feels utterly foreign, as does her new awareness of herself as a minority. Struggling both socially and academically, she returns to Miami for a surprise Thanksgiving visit, only to be overshadowed by the arrival of Ariel Hernandez, a young boy whose mother died fleeing with him from Cuba on a raft. The ensuing immigration battle puts Miami in a glaring spotlight, captivating the nation and entangling Lizet's entire family, especially her mother. Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with difficult decisions that will change her life forever. Urgent and mordantly funny, Make Your Home Among Strangers tells the moving story of a young woman torn between generational, cultural, and political forces; it's the new story of what it means to be American today.

Author : Patricia Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0716532948

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Welcoming the Stranger by Patricia Kennedy Pdf

This lively book tells the untold story of the crucial work carried out by the Irish Emigrant Chaplaincy on behalf of Irish emigrants in Britain for over half a century. The service was established by the Catholic Church in 1957 and the hidden history revealed in the book includes: political intrigue, economic booms and busts, MI5, international relations, miscarriages of justice, Papal Encyclicals, and the struggle for equality and justice. The work of the Irish Emigrant Chaplaincy was conducted against a background of battling the odds and the establishment. It's the story of Irish and British migration history in modern times and Anglo-Irish relations unfolding over turbulent and politically sensitive decades, and comes at a time when the Catholic Church is under increased scrutiny in relation to child sexual abuse and, more recently, the scandal of the Magdalene Laundries. Based on archival research and over 80 interviews with those who benefited from, or administered, this vital service, the roll-call also includes the most prominent world and church leaders of the period: Margaret Thatcher, John Hume, Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese, Cardinal Hume, and Cardinal O Fiaich. Welcoming the Stranger is the first book to demonstrate how the Irish government was forced to take responsibility for the Irish abroad. [Subject: Social History, Irish Studies, British Studies, Diaspora Studies, Migration Studies, Religious Studies]5880 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 7, 2015).

Author : Amy Oden
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829820911

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God's Welcome: by Amy Oden Pdf

"God’s Welcome" is a different kind of how-to book on hospitality, one that studies the stories of God’s welcome and takes seriously the culture of hostility that sometimes masquerades as Christianity. Gather your small group or leadership group (discussion guide included in the book) and dig into the important work of gospel hospitality.

Author : James Cobb,Thomas Linley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1786
Category : Operas
ISBN : UCD:31175033434419

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The Strangers at Home by James Cobb,Thomas Linley Pdf

Author : Jodi Mullen Fondell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532679605

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I Was a Stranger by Jodi Mullen Fondell Pdf

I Was a Stranger will help you build empathy for the strangers and foreigners among you. Through personal experience and through the narratives of people who have moved to a foreign country for a variety of reasons, Jodi Mullen Fondell offers encouragement for churches desiring to be a place of welcome and embrace for those who often find themselves rejected by the broader society. Packed with tips on how to help your church navigate the road toward greater openness, this book offers advice on how to avoid the pitfalls that prevent churches from truly welcoming and embracing the stranger among them. Rev. Fondell gently guides readers in examining their own experiences of alienation in order to understand the profound disorientation that being a stranger in a strange land entails. This identification with the pain of being an outsider, she asserts, can move, motivate, and mobilize the church to live out God's calling to welcome in the stranger. As the body of Christ embraces the members we are tempted to exclude, a new level of joy and a taste of heaven await our congregations. Includes a small-group Bible-study guide for communities ready to grow in ministry and hospitality.

Author : David Smith,Barbara Maria Carvill
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802847080

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The Gift of the Stranger by David Smith,Barbara Maria Carvill Pdf

A pioneering look at the implications of Christian faith for foreign language education. It has become clear in recent years that reflection on foreign language education involves more than questioning which methods work best. This new volume carries current discussions of the value-laden nature of foreign language teaching into new territory by exploring its spiritual and moral dimensions. David Smith and Barbara Carvill show how the Christian faith sheds light on the history, aims, content, and methods of foreign language education. They also propose a new approach to the field based on the Christian understanding of hospitality.