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A Brutal Unity : The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church

To describe the Church as "united" is a factual misnomer-even at its conception centuries ago. Ephraim Radner provides a robust rethinking of the doctrine of the church in light of Christianity's often violent and at times morally suspect history. He holds in tension the strange and t...

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Détails bibliographiques
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baylor University Press 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Religious violence and Christian blasphemy
  • Postscript: the tears of Peter
  • Division is murder
  • Postscript: Judas the Apostle
  • The sins of the church
  • Postscript: loving Jerusalem
  • The conciliar ideal
  • Postscript: the way together
  • The limits of consensus
  • Postscript: the first council
  • The procedural quest for unity and its obstacles
  • Postscript: the prophetic contest
  • Conscience and its limits
  • Postscript: the crucifixion of conscience
  • Multiple consciences and the rise of solidarity
  • Postscript: a figural phenomenology of the church
  • The unity of sacrifice.