The Wayfarer: Perspectives on Forced Migration and Transformational Community Development
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Scripture testifies to God’s care for displaced peoples. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a narrative filled with migrants, with refugees, and with wayfarers. Even God himself is shown to be “on the move”—a God who does not stay on one side of the border but crosses over to save his people.
In The Wayfarer, Dr. Barnabé Anzuruni Msabah engages the global refugee crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective that encompasses both development studies and theological reflection. Using specific examples from Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa, Msabah provides an overview of the sociopolitical, economic, and environmental dynamics of forced migration, while simultaneously exploring theological and cultural frameworks for understanding transformational community development. He examines both the church’s calling to provide sanctuary for displaced peoples and the role of refugees in contributing to the socioeconomic welfare of their host countries. While the church’s mandate is to act with justice and mercy towards the world’s most vulnerable populations, Msabah also reminds us that refugees are not passive recipients but powerful examples of courage, resilience, and hope who can, in their turn, transform our nations and our faith communities for the better.
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- Engages the global refugee crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Examines examples from Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa
- Provides an overview of the sociopolitical, economic, and environmental dynamics of forced migration
- The Immigrants’ Creed
- Introduction
- Forced Migration: Facts and Figures
- Two Contexts, Four Constants
- Transformational Community Development as Ubuntu in Action
- Transformational Community Development as Hope in Action
- Narratives of Hope
- Principles of Transformational Community Development
- Conclusion
The imperative to read the times where an unprecedented number of people have been displaced around the globe, along with reading the sacred texts of Scripture and the witness of Jesus Christ, is urgent. Weaving in his personal journey, Dr. Barnabé Anzuruni Msabah lays the groundwork to grasp the breadth and depth of the global and African challenge of migration and refugees to move the body of Christ to action. Practical paths for engagement are provided for people of faith and faith-communities to embody the good news. This book issues a call to use our collective power of Ubuntu towards hope and transformation, while recognizing the God-given image and resource of the stranger in our midst.
—Selena D. Headley
- Title: The Wayfarer: Perspectives on Forced Migration and Transformational Community Development
- Author: Barnabé Anzuruni Msabah
- Publisher: Hippo Books
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 208
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Emigration and immigration › Religious aspects--Christianity; Forced migration › Biblical teaching; Forced migration › Africa--Case studies
- ISBNs: 9781839732256, 9781839735554, 9781839735561, 9781839735578, 1839732253, 1839735554, 1839735562, 1839735570
- Resource ID: LLS:WYFRRPRSDVLPMNT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-18T16:32:48Z