My new book, Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics (with Dr Luke Glanville)
My new book, co-written with Luke Glanville will be launched in a few weeks: Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics.
(IVP, launch date Feb 16th 2021)
Authors: Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville
“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.” — Christopher Wright, Author of Mission of God
Back cover text
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.
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 a senior lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Australian National University. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History.
Endorsement: Dr Christopher Wright
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 challenges our consciences and our actions.
Christopher J. H. Wright
Langham Partnership
Author of The Mission of God
We are building a “launch team,” which is a group of people who would be willing to post, twitter, email, or blog about our book - generally let folks know about it. Anybody and everybody can be a part of the launch team. We are hoping for over 100 people. If you would be up for this, please email me at markrglanville@gmail.com
