Open Wound, Open Table: A Theological Exploration Of Holy Communion As Practiced By The Border Church/La Iglesia Fronteriza

Seth David Clark

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Open Wound, Open Table: A Theological Exploration Of Holy Communion As Practiced By The Border Church/La Iglesia Fronteriza

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Seth David Clark. Open Wound, Open Table: A Theological Exploration Of Holy Communion As Practiced By The Border Church/la Iglesia Fronteriza. Columbia Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/54dc18c1-eadd-4a89-aca8-1ea639146b21?locale=pt-BR.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

S. D. Clark. Open Wound, Open Table: A Theological Exploration Of Holy Communion As Practiced By The Border Church/La Iglesia Fronteriza. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/54dc18c1-eadd-4a89-aca8-1ea639146b21?locale=pt-BR

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Seth David Clark. Open Wound, Open Table: A Theological Exploration Of Holy Communion As Practiced By The Border Church/la Iglesia Fronteriza. Columbia Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/54dc18c1-eadd-4a89-aca8-1ea639146b21?locale=pt-BR.

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Seth David Clark

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Church (Ecclesiology)

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This study explores the Border Church, which worships across the San Diego-Tijuana border fence at Friendship Park, and how its weekly bi-national, bilingual, nonsectarian communion service, intersects with the lived realities of its borderlands congregants. Through participant-witness ethnography of my congregation and five semi-structured, open-ended interviews, I examine how God is experienced in Christian practices, especially communion, at the border wall. I conclude that borderlands experiences are not monolithic, which counters false groupings of and “othering” tropes about migrants, deportees, and activists. I also theologize about unity amid division and how to make the bread of the table even more open.

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