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A christianity as distinct practices : a complicated relationship /

Jan-Olav Henriksen reconstructs and analyzes Christianity as a cluster of practices that manifest a distinct historically and contextually shaped mode of being in the world. Henriksen suggests that these practices imply a complicated relationship between the tradition in which they originate, the co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henriksen, Jan-Olav (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Colección:Rethinking theologies: constructing alternatives in history and doctrine ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Religion as orientation, transformation, and legitimization of human practices in everyday life
  • Lived religion instead of religion as belief
  • Practices of orientation and transformation are social practices
  • How focus on practices may reshape philosophy of religion
  • To access the world as world: semiosis
  • Ritual practices as cognitive prosthetics
  • In conclusion
  • (Hi- )story as resource for orientation and transformation
  • The content of the story: what Jesus practices as the basis for (ecclesiological) practice
  • A moral community that stewards the abundant gifts of God
  • Prayer as means of transformation and orientation: the example of the Lord's Prayer
  • A reinterpretation of the scriptures and the concrete use of scripture in the church
  • Preaching as a contemporary practice: between communicative and strategic action
  • Commemoration of Jesus's practices: openness toward both past and future
  • Puzzles for orientation: suffering, death, and resurrection
  • A theological conclusion: how to practice "God"?
  • Is Christianity a religion?: are belief and doctrine opposed to practice?
  • Conclusion.