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Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics Paperback – 16 February 2021
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The global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year. At the same time, Western Christians' sympathy toward refugees is increasingly overshadowed by concerns about personal and national security, economics, and culture. We urgently need a perspective that understands both Scripture and current political realities and that can be applied at the levels of the church, the nation, and the globe. In Refuge Reimagined, Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship. God's people, they argue, are consistently called to extend kinship--a mutual responsibility and solidarity--to those who are marginalized and without a home. Drawing on their respective expertise in Old Testament studies and international relations, the two brothers engage a range of disciplines to demonstrate how this ethic is consistently conveyed throughout the Bible and can be practically embodied today. Glanville and Glanville apply the kinship ethic to issues such as the current mission of the church, national identity and sovereignty, and possibilities for a cooperative global response to the refugee crisis. Challenging the fear-based ethic that often motivates Christian approaches, they envision a more generous, creative, and hopeful way forward. Refuge Reimagined will equip students, activists, and anyone interested in refugee issues to understand the biblical model for communities and how it can transform our world.
- Print length274 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherIVP Academic
- Publication date16 February 2021
- Dimensions15.24 x 2.03 x 22.61 cm
- ISBN-100830853812
- ISBN-13978-0830853816
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"The lens of kinship with refugees that Mark and Luke Glanville offer has the potential to be revolutionary. This book will change and deepen the conversation around a biblical ethic for welcoming refugees, and I highly recommend it."
Jarrod McKenna, host of the InVerse Podcast and co-initiator of the #LoveMakesAWay movement
"What would it mean if, rather than just providing support and protection for people experiencing displacement, we actually lived life with them? In this important book, Mark and Luke Glanville provide an answer to this question through the biblical concept of kinship. Building on existing work in political theory, theology on hospitality, and our responses to people on the move, Glanville and Glanville suggest that the Scriptures call us to enfold displaced people as kindred, in relationships where both the host and the hosted bless and receive blessing. This framework has the potential to radically disrupt existing approaches to refugees and protection in both scholarship and practice, as they demonstrate through their engagement with key biblical texts and day-to-day institutions and processes. It's a radical disruption that is desperately needed in these dark and challenging times for the politics of migration and politics in general."
Erin Wilson, associate professor of politics and religion at the University of Groningen
"Informed and informative, Refuge Reimagined combines careful biblical and sociopolitical scholarship to call Christians and the church to respond compassionately to the mounting refugee crisis. Using the foundational concept of kinship-familial, communal, national, and global-the authors seek to cultivate an ethic of virtuous welcome that could be a catalyst for the more humane treatment of foreigners in the body politic. Insightful, pastoral, and practical, this volume is an exemplary resource."
M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas), Scripture Press Ministries Professor of Biblical Studies and Pedagogy, Wheaton College and Graduate School
"It is rare to find a single book that is as rich in biblical scholarship as it is well informed on one of the most urgent global issues of our generation, and rarer still to read one that is so effective in bringing the two into such constructive, creative, and hope-filled interaction. The deployment of the Glanville brothers' respective expertise in biblical and international studies has produced this massively informative challenge, both to Christian churches and to any political leaders prepared to give them a hearing. The combination of meticulously documented research (contemporary and historical, and often painfully eye opening), with personal testimony from the lived experience of the Kinbrace Community in Vancouver, gives voice to an authenticity and truth that must challenge our consciences and our actions."
Christopher J. H. Wright, Langham Partnership, author of The Mission of God
About the Author
Mark R. Glanville (PhD, Bristol University) is associate professor of pastoral theology at Regent College, Vancouver, and an Old Testament scholar. He is the author of Adopting the Stranger as Kindred in Deuteronomy and Freed to Be God's Family: The Book of Exodus.
Luke Glanville (PhD, University of Queensland) is associate professor in the department of international relations at Australian National University. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History.
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- Publisher : IVP Academic (16 February 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 274 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0830853812
- ISBN-13 : 978-0830853816
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.61 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 180,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 331 in Christian Bible History & Culture
- 641 in Christian Social Issues (Books)
- 1,525 in Christian Bible Study (Books)
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About the authors
Luke Glanville is associate professor of international relations at the Australian National University. He received his PhD from University of Queensland in 2010. His first book, "Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History," published in 2014, won the Australian Political Science Association Crisp Prize and a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award. His second book, "Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics" (with Mark R. Glanville), and also his third book, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities," were published in 2021.
Dr Mark R Glanville is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, and an Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) scholar. Mark’s recent scholarship explores dynamics of kinship and ethics in the Old Testament. Prior to joining Regent, Mark pastored for 14 years in both Canada and Australia. Mark has been bi-vocational, combining reflective (justice-seeking) pastoring with biblical scholarship. He has published in numerous top tier biblical studies journals (including JBL, JSOT, and CBQ). He is an Aussie, and he likes to express his masculinity by snapping a crocodile’s neck with two fingers. Mark is also a trained jazz pianist who plays on the Vancouver jazz scene.
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The book in a crafted and accessible way identifies the “newcomer” as the most important person. This role is probably best exemplified in current 12-step fellowship practice wherein the newcomer is the most important person at any meeting. The book is an introduction to Biblical concepts of Kinship and a minefield to traditional reading of scripture. Cautionary phrases such as “avoid moralistic reading of Torah” (69) flood the imagination and Refuge Reimagined. Throughout the book there is a call to “not persuade the world to worship as we do, but rather to give ourselves freely for the welfare of the world” (105). The book is a scripture-rich survey of history.
The book is also a data-rich survey of the human condition. The suffering, the inhumanity, the moral arrogance and the change-making work. Reading Refuge Reimagined not only focused my belief systems but also helped direct my practice of kinship. There was, at the meal tables of my youth, room for the stranger, the new immigrant, the underemployed and the outcast. Under our roof there has been room, but as the Glanvilles put it succinctly, there is always room to let the evil empire of Rev 13 be the antidote to Romans 13. (144) I was challenged. Is there room in your imagination and practice? Take a few nights and read Refuge Reimagined. Turkey, Syria, Myanmar and wherever you neighbor is from have a few spares.

Shameless disclaimer - Mark Glanville is married to my niece, an English professor. Our personal interactions make me more inclined to recommendation. Their lives, along with both extended families, have long consistent records with what this fine book. - Lee Nanfelt