INTRODUCTION 1. DISCERNING MIGRATION THROUGH LITERATURE 2. NAMING THE PHENOMENA 3. VOICING MIGRANT INCLUSION 4. ADVOCATING NEW WORSHIP COMMUNITIES Bibliography Index.
Biography
Nathan McConnell is a Minister in the Church of Scotland. He holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen and has taught at Palm Beach Atlantic University and Trinity International University.
“A timely intervention in a topic of burning ethical importance that will only grow in relevance in our lifetimes. A humane and theological call for the church to be a voice—and hands—of welcome to the dispossessed and vulnerable.”
- Dr. Brian Brock, Professor of Moral and Practical Theology; University of Aberdeen
“Prisoners of Hope takes the reader deep into one of the ‘ground zeros’ of the contemporary migrant crisis: the island of Malta. Beyond the headlines, the book attends to the voices of refugees caught in a seemingly endless and inescapable maze of detention regimes, bureaucracy, and dead ends. Dr. McConnell’s unflinching protest against the migrant’s entrapment in such a ‘state of exception’ is an important contribution to moral theology and the analysis of contemporary European migration policy.”
- Dr. Christopher Brittain, Dean of Divinity and Margaret E. Fleck Chair in Anglican Studies, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Nathan McConnell’s Prisoners of Hope deftly brings together engagement with migration studies, theology, and his own experience in Malta to help the church learn what it means to be hospitable and a place of inclusion to those migrants who have been otherwise socially and politically excluded. Drawing on the works of Giorgio Agamben, Seyla Benhabib, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the book will prove of interest to students of migration, political philosophy, and Christian ethics.
- Dr. Michael Laffin, Independent Scholar
