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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| 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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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.