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States of Exile: Visions of Diaspora, Witness, and Return

Author: Alain Epp Weaver

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  • Product Code: 9422
  • ISBN: 9780836194227
  • Other ISBN: 0836194225
  • Publisher:  Herald Press
  • Pages: 250
  • Binding Information: Paper
  • Publication Date: Mar 17, 2008
  • Series Number: 3
  • Series Title: Polyglossia: Reformation Theologies

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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.

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"In this important work, Alain Epp Weaver asks whether exile and return must be in binary opposition to one another or can be in communion with each other. The author knits together the narratives of exile and return with the stories of Israelis and Palestinians and asks how acts of mourning and memory can be signs pointing to a future of justice, peace, and reconciliation in this divided land." —Naim Ateek, Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center

"Alain Epp Weaver interweaves on the ground of Middle East experience with astute theological and political analysis. He shows both Christians and Jews how diaspora and exile can be transformed into a witness befitting their respective religious traditions, and strong enough to neutralize the manifold ways partisans of each distort those same traditions. A demanding yet liberating read for all!" —David Burrell, CSC, University of Notre Dame

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