To Aliens and Exiles: Preaching the New Testament as Minority-Group Rhetoric in a Post-Christendom World

Over the space of a generation Christianity in the Western world has gone from occupying a central place in the wider society to being eyed with increasing suspicion and in some places outright hostility. Although the church has always been a minority group in the past decade or so it has become reawakened to that reality--and to the similarities it shares with the first followers of Jesus for whom the New Testament was written. In this book Tim MacBride shows how New Testament texts functioned ...See More