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To Be Welcomed as Christ: Pursuing a Hospitable Evangelicalism

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, 2022
ISBN: 9781532674488
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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

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.

——Daniel Treier, Wheaton College

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.

——Greg Peters, American Benedictine Academy

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.

——Mark Labberton, Fuller Theological Seminary

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.

——Andrew Teal, University of Oxford

Nicholas Scott-Blakely is a PhD Candidate in Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary where he also works for the Institute of Faith and Public Life. He received his MA in Theological Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary and is working on rethinking the church’s theology of Jews and Judaism.

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