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BIBle sTudy
No Longer Strangers: Crossing Borders
for Peacemaking, Part 4
What It Means to Cross Over
A Bible Study by Doris García-Rivera
Texts: Luke 8:26-39, Acts 16:16-24
Here are some examples in scripture:
Editor's note: The following is the last of a four-part series of Bible
studies given by Doris García-Rivera during the 2015 BPFNA Summer
1. Distribution of help in Acts 2 and the discrimination against
Conference in Harrisonburg, VA, last July. In Part 1, "Created in God's
Greek widows.
Image: Defining Ourselves," Dr. Garcia discussed the concept of the divine
2. The conflict between Paul and Peter in Galatians.
image in the ancient Near East and in our globalized world of today, and
3. Conflict in Acts 15 over the inclusion of Gentiles.
the Bible as an intercultural document. In Part 2, "The Invitation to
Below are some of the historical controversies of the
Naming," she discussed how the power of naming affects our relationships
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Church
:
with God, creation and other people, and what it means to welcome the
stranger in our world. In Part 3, "No Longer Strangers: Crossing Borders
* Integration of the Gentiles to Judeo-Christians and
for Peacemaking," she introduced the theme of intercultural competency
requirements imposed.
and the case of Hagar in the book of Genesis. In the final installment, she
* Debates on the canon and the nature of Christ:
considers with us how to live out the ideal of crossing borders.
Arianism, Socinianism, Gnosticism, Marcionism.
* When to celebrate Eucharist.
he history of the church has been loaded with tension as
* Cesaropapismo (Caesaropapism) Fourth Century:
walls, borders and limits have been erected to keep the
-Charlemagne binds the Church to the State
"other" away. Yet walls, borders and limits have been taken
and vice versa.
down when realization came that the stranger was not so
-Disputes about the relationship between
strange. These tensions within the Church created conflicts,
church and state.2
big and small, throughout all of the history of Christianity.
* The concept of sola fide (by faith alone):
Martin Luther, Lutheranism, Protestantism.
* Theory of a heliocentric solar system:
Galileo, 1633
* Evolutionary theory
Darwin and the Origin of
Species, 1830
* Baptism
* Women in ministry
* Slavery
* End of the world
* Ecumenism
* Gender issues
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Left: Rev. Dr. Doris Garcia-Rivera
led the morning Bible studies at
the BPFNA Summer Conference in
Harrisonburg, VA, last July.
Photo by Steve Hammond.
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