Open AccessFrom welcomed migrants to alleged terrorists: A missio-political reading of Exodus 1:8-2:10
Author(s) -
Roderick R. Hewitt
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
stellenbosch theological journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-9467
pISSN - 2413-9459
DOI - 10.17570/stj.2015.v1n2.a21
Subject(s) - dignity , politics , human rights , poetry , reading (process) , economic justice , dysfunctional family , face (sociological concept) , sociology , old testament , law , gender studies , political science , theology , literature , social science , art , philosophy , psychology , psychotherapist
This article examines the plight of migrants by conversing Brian Wren’s poetic song, Travellers, with a missio-political reading of Exodus 1:8 – 2:10. Most migrants are people on the move fleeing from untenable threats to their lives from dysfunctional states of the Global South. The article argues that the socio-economic and political forces that deny the Hebrew migrants in ancient Egypt fullness of life as described in Exodus 1:8-2:10 are still at work in the threats that contemporary migrants face. Wren’s poetic song offers a life-affirming discourse that postulate an alternative missio-political response that affirm human dignity, human rights, human respect and a commitment to justice that facilitate “fullness of life”.