Rethinking Christian identity : doctrine and discipleship /
Recent decades have seen major shifts in our understanding of Christian identity. This timely book explores contemporary theological theory in asking what makes a Christian in the twenty-first century. Engages with developments in contemporary theological thought, assessing the work of leading figur...
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Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2013.
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| Series: | Challenges in contemporary theology.
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Table of Contents:
- Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Giving Thanks; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Between the Postliberal and the Postmodern; Postliberal or Postmodern? George Lindbeck's The Nature of Doctrine; Postliberalism as Theological Style; Theories of Culture I: The Critique of Postliberalism; Theories of Culture II: Constructing Christian Identity; Habitus and Agency: Tanner and Bourdieu; On Tradition and the Practice of Christian Doctrine: Tanner and MacIntyre; Conclusion; 2: Stories of Identity; The Habits of Christian Selfhood: Taking Time and Making Sense.
- Making Sense and the Development of Christian IdentityChristian Subjectivity and the Desire for God: Williams and Frantz Fanon; On Christian Habitus: Williams and Talal Asad; Making Sense and Christian Self-Identity: Williams and Judith Butler; Stories of the Past; Reading the Present: The Conversation with the Secular; Lessons from the Archbishop; 3: It is no longer I who live; What Makes Theology Postmodern?; Milbank's Account of Christian Life: The Ontology of Peace and Active Reception; The ontology of peace; Participation; Active reception.
- Active Reception and the Problem of Sin: Milbank's Reading of Gregory of NyssaSin and salvation; Milbank contra Gregory on the Christian Life; Conclusion: Turning to Gregory of Nyssa; 4: The Body's Reason; Why Do I Speak of the Soul?; The Apathetic Soul: Mirror of the Divine; Created in the image of God; Gregory and Macrina on the Soul; On the nature of the soul: The body's reason; Broken cisterns that can hold no water: The problem of the passions; The upward call of God; The Manly Virgin: Gregory's Portrayal of the Apathetic Soul; Macrina as example; Macrina's apathetic soul.
- Conclusion: The Mirror of Desire5: The Nature of Doctrine Revisited; Doctrine and the Christian Life: Gregory's Catechetical Oration; The foundation of doctrine: Knowing God; The doctrine of salvation and the purification of the soul; The knowledge of God: Gregory on language and imagination; Doctrine, Desire and the Formation of Christians: Gregory's Commentary on the Song of Songs; Stretching out to what lies before: Doctrine and perception; We mold within ourselves a honeycomb: Doctrine and virtue; This law written in the heart: Doctrine, memory, and desire; Conclusion.
- 6: Doctrine, Discipleship, and Christian IdentityOn the Road: Excursus on Acts 14:22; Rethinking Christian Identity: An Old Idea in a New Place; Formation; Sin; Doctrine; The saints; Receiving the identity of Jesus, or, holiness is in the struggle; Bibliography; Premodern Sources; Augustine; Aquinas; Gregory of Nyssa; Index.