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| Publication Date: 17 Feb 2022 |
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| Publisher: Apollos |
| Words: 83000 |
| Page Count: 224 |
| Author: Chee-Chiew Lee |
| ISBN-13: 9781789742688, 9781789742695 |
When Christians Face Persecution
Theological Perspectives from the New Testament
When Christian Face Persecution explores biblical teaching on persecution in the New Testament and demonstrates how it can be applied to the church today.
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This well-researched work of careful scholarship addresses a topic of vital importance to the global church. Lee engages this theme throughout the New Testament, examining the many passages in their first-century setting and showing the relevance of the early Christian writers' wisdom for analogous situations today.
Exactly what constitutes persecution for being a Christian from the Bible’s perspective? What were all the reasons it happened in New Testament times? What was the range of appropriate responses? How do we apply them today? If any of these questions interests you, Chee-Chiew Lee’s New Testament theology of suffering is a must-read. If they don’t, given our world’s current religious climate, they should! An excellent resource.
At its best, biblical scholarship brings out the teaching of Scripture for the edification of the people of God. This such a work. By reading the text carefully, Dr Lee traces the various responses to persecution seen in the New Testament. No study is ever done without context; in this study, Dr Lee uses her context to bring the issue of persecution into a renewed and sharp focus. Recommended to every Christian – and biblical scholar – who wants to reflect seriously on how persecution shaped early thinking in the church.
'Dr Chee-Chiew Lee’s book of well-researched scholarship combines a rich exploration of New Testament theology regarding how to face persecution, the diverse Christian response to persecution in the Greco-Roman world, and an analysis of how the different authors in the New Testament encourage readers to persevere in faith during persecution. The epilogue is a must read as Dr Lee presents her own personal reflections on how to apply a theological understanding of persecution to our current contemporary context. Lee’s appeal for readers to empathize with the persecuted is certainly the book’s grand finale.
Chee-Chiew Lee offers here a constructive engagement with existing scholarship to explore the diverse causes of, and responses to, persecution in the New Testament, showing how its authors offer an empathetic theology of perseverance that has the potential to empower a response contextually suited for afflicted Christians in Asian and African settings today.
Many New Testament studies focus on persevering in faith to the end and responding even to perpetrators of persecution with love and forgiveness. Yet while there are unifying principles, the New Testament is filled with a range of experiences of and reflections on Christian persecution – texts that it is crucial to engage with in order to fully appreciate the bewildering array of experience and strongly held viewpoints amongst believers today.
In When Christians Face Persecution, Chee-Chiew Lee explores the New Testament authors’ theological understanding of persecution. She offers a thorough look at the biblical foundations, covering their responses to early Christian persecution, their evaluation of these responses, and how they encourage or persuade their recipients to persevere in their faith.
Lee also brings these writings together to offer an integrated theology of facing persecution, reflecting on how the understanding of early Christian writers can be applied to the persecution of Christians today.
When Christians Face Persecution is a valuable study that will enrich your knowledge of biblical teaching on persecution, and its continued relevance in the twenty-first century. It offers engaging theological synthesis as well as contextual reflection, and it invites you to a deeper understanding of the breadth of theological perspectives contained with the New Testament.