To Be Welcomed as Christ
Pursuing a Hospitable Evangelicalism
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Mainstream American evangelicalism is facing an identity crisis. Many wonder whether or not evangelical communities can become safe spaces that better enable people to enjoy, love, and know God and all that God cares about. This book, in honor of Dennis Okholm's decades of leadership in the academy and the church, commends the ways in which he has attempted to help his own communities flourish. His goal of filling the pews with theologically and biblically literate Christians is a much-needed example of steadiness and wisdom to an otherwise turbulent reality facing those who wish to maintain some association with the evangelical label. The emphases that appear in the contributions to this book represent Okholm's passion for the life of the church, his desire for evangelicalism to be a more hospitable home for all within its fold and in relation to other communities, and his desire for friendship and community to have a more prominent role in theological and biblical reflection. To Be Welcomed as Christ offers an example for engaging one's own community and the communities of others with the hospitality of Christ. Table of Contents 1. Theology as a Healing Art Ellen T. Charry 2. To Be Welcomed as Christ--Into the Church Todd Hunter 3. Participating in God's Mission: A Proposal at the Boundaries of Evangelicalism Justin Ashworth 4. Evangelicalism: A Home for All of Us Vincent Bacote 5. Herstory: Reclaiming Women's Voices for the Evangelical Tradition Jennifer Buck 6. Thinking Theologically about Interfaith Dialogue Richard J. Mouw 7. Talking with Evangelicals: The Latter-day Saint-Evangelical Dialogue in Retrospect Robert Millet 8. The Monkhood of All Believers: On Monasticism Old and New Rodney Clapp 9. When Friends Become Siblings: A Pauline Theology of Friendship Scot McKnight 10. Wiri Nina in the Body of Christ: Considering Friendship from an African Perspective David Fugoyo-Baime 11. Of All These Friends and Lovers: Remembering the Body and the Blood Craig Keen 12. Is it OK to be Proud of Your Humility? Robert Roberts 13. Dennis Okholm Michael McNichols Epilogue: At the Advice of a Sister: The Benedictine Way for the Unexpected Benet Tvedten, OSB
Endorsements (6)
“It’s delightful to have this volume of essays address a vital theme while honoring a wise mentor and beloved friend. Insights from these excellent contributors can promote the practice of evangelical hospitality that many of us have experienced from Dennis Okholm.”
“To Be Welcomed as Christ is a fitting tribute to Dennis Okholm, whose wide-ranging interests are well represented in this volume. But what ties them all together is Okholm’s commitment to the Christian monastic heritage, whose influence is likewise diffused throughout the church and across the Christian tradition. Just as monasticism is a gift to the church, so is Okholm, and his influence in institutions and individuals will continue to flourish and bear much fruit.”
“To Be Welcomed as Christ is truly a welcoming and spiritually rich book. It is also a well-deserved tribute to theologian, friend, and conscience of evangelicalism Dennis Okholm. The diverse set of significant contributors introduce and elaborate on major themes of theological and relational hospitality true to Okholm’s life and ministry. It is a delightful and edifying book.”
“This delightful collection of essays addresses hospitality, friendship, and community in the life of the church. Each chapter is beautifully written, honest, thoughtful, uplifting, hopeful—a true testimony to Okholm’s passion for theological reflection and community flourishing.”
“This rich collection of essays presents dimensions of a Christian faith that can be hospitable, humble, and capacious. The distinctive voices here manifest the Christ-bearing aroma of Dennis Okholm, in whose honor these reflections have been so deservedly gathered. Nicholas Scott-Blakely does a fine job as editor presenting essays that intensify our hunger for that hospitable wisdom of God, whose friendship is meant to mark all our communion.”
“This beautiful collection models profoundly hospitable collaboration, illuminating Dennis Okholm’s theology as good news: welcome in contrast to the exclusion, distortion and condescension of much of the Western intellectual tradition. In the spirit of Barth, McClendon, and—supremely—Jesus Christ, these essays place theology in that long narrative of the God whose Spirit opens all difference and conflict into an awareness of the beautiful friendship the Father extends to us all in his Son.”
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