
Inhabiting the Land
Thinking Theologically about the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Alain Epp Weaver(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 30. August 2018
Book
Hardback
148 pages
978-1-4982-9432-4 (ISBN)
Description
What does it mean to inhabit the land of Palestine and Israel justly? How should Christians understand the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? Alain Epp Weaver examines answers to these questions, paying particular attention to the theologies of sumud, or steadfastness, advanced by Palestinian Christian theologians, while also presenting other Christian, Jewish, and Muslim responses. Contextualizing these theologies within Palestinian and Israeli Jewish histories, Epp Weaver introduces readers to the intertwined histories of Zionism (as a movement to establish a Jewish state and renew Jewish life in the biblical land of Israel) and Palestinian nationalism. He also situates Palestinian Christian theologies within broader Christian conversations about election, God's enduring covenant with the Jewish people, and Zionism. In the face of a politics of separation and dispossession, Epp Weaver contends, Palestinian Christian theologies testify to the possibility of a shared polity and geography for Palestinians and Israeli Jews not defined by walls, militarized fences, checkpoints, and roadblocks, but rather by mutuality and reconciliation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4982-9432-4 (9781498294324)
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Alain Epp Weaver (PhD in Theology, University of Chicago) directs strategic planning for Mennonite Central Committee. He previously worked in Palestine for over a decade and is the author and editor of several books, including Mapping Exile and Return: Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future (2014).