The article sets out a critical assessment of recent public reactions in Germany upon taking in large numbers of refugees since 2015, which have been swaying between moralisation and resentment. In this situation, public theology should ask how hospitality is linked to the perceived identity of a society and to its perception of who belongs, and what role Christianity might play in these debates. Drawing on a phenomenological perspective within contemporary German philosophy (Bernhard Waldenfels), and contrasting this perspective with historical and contemporary voices on migration within political philosophy (Georg Simmel, Michael Walzer), the article explores what the concepts of stranger, member and guest imply for the relation of ‘us’ to ‘the other’. From this, I derive a suggestion as to how Christian theology could contribute to a change in the self-perception of society, centred around the seemingly paradoxical concept of ‘belonging in not-belonging’.

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陌生人和同胞：对移民和社会的看法

这篇文章对德国自 2015 年以来接收大量难民的近期公众反应进行了批判性评估，这些反应一直在道德化和怨恨之间摇摆不定。在这种情况下，公共神学应该询问好客如何与社会的感知身份及其对谁归属的看法有关，以及基督教在这些辩论中可能扮演什么角色。本文利用当代德国哲学 (Bernhard Waldenfels) 中的现象学观点，并将这种观点与政治哲学中关于移民的历史和当代声音 (Georg Simmel, Michael Walzer) 进行对比，探讨了陌生人、成员和客人的概念对“我们”与“他者”的关系。由此，