audiobook Immigrants in the Valley: Irish; Germans; and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country; 1830-1860 by Mark Wyman in History

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The people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians; Babylonians; Greeks or Romans; the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history; however; the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world; with considerable influence and power. That age of Christendom is now over; and as Lee Beach demonstrates; this is something for which the church should be grateful. The "peace" of Christendom was a false one; and there is no comfortable normalcy to which we can or should return. Drawing on a close engagement with Old Testament and New Testament texts; The Church in Exile offers a biblical and practical theology for the church in a post-Christian age. Beach helps the people of God today to develop a hopeful and prophetic imagination; a theology responsive to its context; and an exilic identity marked by faithfulness to God's mission in the world.