Untamed Hospitality or World Grilling

Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers

Author: Elizabeth Newman

Christian hospitality is more than a well-set table, pleasant conversation, or even inviting people into your home. Christian hospitality, according to Elizabeth Newman, is an extension of how we interact with God. It trains us to be capable of welcoming strangers who will challenge us and enhance our lives in unexpected ways, readying us to embrace the ultimate stranger: God.

In Untamed Hospitality, Newman dispels the modern myths of hospitality as a superficial commodity that can be bought and sold at The Pottery Barn and restores it to its proper place within God's story, as displayed most fully in Jesus Christ. Worship, she says, is the believer's participation in divine hospitality, a hospitality that cannot be sequestered from our economic, political, or public lives. This in-depth study of true hospitality will be of interest to professors, students, and scholars looking for a fresh take on a timeless subject.

Publishers Weekly

What passes for hospitality in contemporary life-being "nice," reaching out to consumers, and practicing multiculturalism for its sake-is a distortion of real hospitality, according to Newman, a professor of theology and ethics at Baptist Theological Seminary. In our political, economic and ethical common life, as well as within our Christian congregations, we have domesticated hospitality. True hospitality is learned in worship, which, at its best, teaches people to receive from God, as well as to give everything back. Rather than motivating us to be hospitable, Newman explains, worship transforms us so that no other choice is possible. Newman explores how corporate worship (singing, praying and so on) can help people overcome the individualism of contemporary culture, which works against Christian understandings, and begin to see their lives as gifts from God. Particularly in the Eucharist, people learn to be both guest and host, and "become people capable of recognizing and receiving Christ," able to see God in others, no matter how strange or challenging they appear. This scholarly study of how North American culture understands, and has marginalized, true hospitality will be of interest primarily to academics, clergy and students. (Apr.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     11
Introduction     13
A "Strange Apprehension" of the Grace of God
The Distortions of Hospitality     19
The Strange Hospitality of Christian Worship     41
Hospitality as a Vigilant Practice
The Challenge of Science and Economics: How the Faith of Hospitality Tells a Different Story     73
Ethics as Choosing My Values? How the Hope of Hospitality Lies Elsewhere     105
The Politics of Higher Education: How the Love of Hospitality Offers an Alternative     123
Hospitality as a Unifying Practice
A Divided House? Hospitality and the Table of Grace     147
Strange Hospitality to the Stranger     173
Notes     193
Index     225

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World Grilling: With More than 100 International Recipes

Author: Denis Kelly

Forget the fryer; bypass the broiler. With more than 130 original, easy-to-do recipes, this repackaged and revised cookbook reinvigorates the humble but versatile grill. Popular cookbook author Denis Kelly has assembled a wide-ranging collection of recipes to please all the senses. Organized by type of meat, with special chapters for seafood and vegetarian dishes, the recipes include alluring appetizers (Smoke-Roasted Garlic), scrumptious seafood (Barbecued Oysters with Habanero Salsa), and satisfying soups (Thai-Roasted Tomato, Prawn, and Basil Bisque). Published in a smaller, giftier format than the previous edition and featuring a new introduction, World Grilling presents a delicious array of dishes for both the grilling guru who likes a challenge and the interested amateur aiming to impress family and friends.