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

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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&...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mahn, Jason A., 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2016]
Subjects:
2000-2099
Christianity > United States > 21st century.
Christian life > United States > 21st century.
Vie chrétienne > États-Unis > 21e siècle.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Christian life.
Christianity.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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