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: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Christian life > United States > 21st century.
Christianity > United States > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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