Welcoming the stranger: practices of hospitality as a prophetic witness to gay and lesbian persons in the United Methodist Church

John Patrick Colatch

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Welcoming the stranger: practices of hospitality as a prophetic witness to gay and lesbian persons in the United Methodist Church

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

John Patrick Colatch. Welcoming the Stranger: Practices of Hospitality As a Prophetic Witness to Gay and Lesbian Persons In the United Methodist Church. Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b117583e-9dd8-4335-957a-42a82ca67cb4.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

J. P. Colatch. Welcoming the stranger: practices of hospitality as a prophetic witness to gay and lesbian persons in the United Methodist Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b117583e-9dd8-4335-957a-42a82ca67cb4

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John Patrick Colatch. Welcoming the Stranger: Practices of Hospitality As a Prophetic Witness to Gay and Lesbian Persons In the United Methodist Church. Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b117583e-9dd8-4335-957a-42a82ca67cb4.

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John Patrick Colatch

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Thesis: Practices of hospitality can be a prophetic witness of welcome for gay and lesbian person in the United Methodist Church. The author researched opinions of biblical scholars and Christian theologians, interviewed gay and lesbian Christians, and studied three congregations in order to develop models of hospitality that welcome gay and lesbian people into the fellowship of United Methodist congregations. A trajectory of welcome for the stranger was developed, using the books of Ruth, Isaiah and Mark. That focus of inclusion offers a foundation for biblical and theological rationales for alternative understandings of hospitality and concrete expressions of welcome offered by actual congregations. The resultant model offers a prophetic way for any church to welcome the strangers in its midst.

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