To Aliens and Exiles: Preaching the New Testament as Minority-Group Rhetoric in a Post-Christendom World

Over the space of a generation, Christianity in the Western world has gone from occupying a central place in the wider society to being eyed with increasing suspicion and, in some places, outright hostility. Although the church has always been a minority group, in the past decade or so it has become reawakened to that reality--and to the similarities it shares with the first followers of Jesus for whom the New Testament was written.

In this book, Tim MacBride shows how New Testament texts f...