Cargando…

Becoming a Christian in Christendom : radical discipleship and the way of the cross in America's Christian culture /

How might one live the Christian faith within a culture that idealizes and privileges Christianity while also relativizing it and making it redundant? Arguing for a reconceptualization of the theology of the cross and radical communal practices, the author explores some pervasive dangers of America&...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mahn, Jason A., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2016]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Becoming a Christian in Christendom; Becoming a Christian in Christendom; ; Contents; ; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Life in a "Christian" Culture; PROBLEMS; Christendom, Then and Now; Unpacking Christian Privilege; RESOURCES; Purveyors of Comfort and Kierkegaard's Call to Discipleship; Upstanding Patriotic Citizens and Bonhoeffer's Faithful Resistance; Church as Chaplain and Contemporary Critics of Constantine; CONTOURS; ECONOMY: Free Grace in a Culture of Cheap; POLITICS: Getting Radical and Staying Ordinary; WAR: Subversions of the Cross.
  • RELIGION: Guests in the House of IsraelRE-FORMATION; Conclusion: Becoming (a) Christian in Christendom; For Further Reading; Index.