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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&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction : life in a "Christian" culture -- part I. Problems -- 1. Christendom, then and now -- 2. Unpacking Christian privilege -- part II. Resources -- 3. Purveyors of comfort and Kierkegaard's call to discipleship -- 4. Upstanding patriotic citizens and Bonhoeffer's faithful resistance -- 5. Church as chaplain and contemporary critics of Constantine -- part III. Contours -- 6. Economy : free grace in a culture of cheap -- 7. Politics : getting radical and staying ordinary -- 8. War : subversions of the cross -- 9. Religion : guests in the House of Israel -- part IV. Re-formation -- 10. Conclusion : becoming (a) Christian in Christendom. | |
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| 520 | |a 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's new Christendom and provocatively imagines alternatives to conventional Christianity--ones whereby the church embodies an alternative politic, where it commits to cruciform non-violence, appreciates gifts by giving them away, and knows its boundaries well enough to learn from those on the other side. | ||
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