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Article Excerpt
Amos Yong, Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices and the Neighbour, Maryknoll, New York, Orbis Books, 2008, 163 pp.
Hospitality might seem a simple subject and ideal for a small book. Not so. Amos Yong is determined to prepare the ground and explore all the issues, such as those relating to dialogue and evangelism, before offering advice on how best to be hospitable to people of other faiths. All this makes for a good education in a wide range of subjects and a rather tantalizing read if we are in a hurry to entertain our Muslim neighbours in a post 9/11 world.
9/11 sets the scene and, to a large extent, the tone of Hospitality and the Other. Yong does not accept Huntington's Clash of Civilizations thesis but he is acutely...
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