Christian Existence Today
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Christian Existence Today
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Author : Stanley Hauerwas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Christian Existence Today written by Stanley Hauerwas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Christian ethics categories.
Christian ethicist Stanley Hauerwas explores the church's unique nature, message, and ministry in the world.
Christian Existence Today
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Author : Stanley Hauerwas
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2010-09-01
Christian Existence Today written by Stanley Hauerwas and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with Religion categories.
Stanley Hauerwas begins this volume with a vigorous response to the charge of sectarianism leveled against his work by James Gustafson, among others. "Show me where I am wrong about God, Jesus, the limits of liberalism, the nature of the virtues, or the doctrine of the church," Hauerwas replies to his critics, "but do not shortcut that task by calling me a sectarian."The essays that follow explore in a lucid, compelling, firm, and provocative way the church's nature, message, and ministry in the world. Hauerwas writes on the church as God's new language, on clerical character, on the pastor as prophet, on the ministry of the local congregation, on grace and public virtue, and on the relation of church and university.Underlying Hauerwas's argument is his conviction that "the most important knowledge Christian convictions involve, and there is much worth knowing for which Christians have no special claim, requires a transformation of the self. Christianity is no 'world view,' not a form of primitive metaphysics, that can be assessed in comparison to alternative 'world views.' Rather, Christians are people who remain convinced that the truthfulness of their beliefs must be demonstrated in their lives. There is a sense in which Christian convictions are self-referential, but the reference is not to propositions but to lives."
The Ecclesiology Of Stanley Hauerwas
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Author : John B. Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
The Ecclesiology Of Stanley Hauerwas written by John B. Thomson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Religion categories.
This book presents the theological work of Stanley Hauerwas as a distinctive kind of 'liberation theology'. John Thomson offers an original construal of this diffuse, controversial, yet highly significant modern theologian and ethicist. Organising Hauerwas' corpus in terms of the focal concept of liberation, Thomson shows that it possesses a greater degree of coherence than its usual expression in ad hoc essays or sermons. John Thomson locates Hauerwas in relation to a wide range of figures, including the obvious choices - Rauschenbusch, Niebuhr, Barth, Yoder, Lindbeck, MacIntyre, Milbank and O'Donovan - as well as less expected figures such as Gadamer, Habermas, Ricoeur, Pannenberg, Moltmann, and Hardy. Providing a structured and rigorous outline of Hauerwas' intellectual roots, this book presents an account of his theological project that demonstrates an underlying consistency in his attempt to create a political understanding of Christian freedom, reaching beyond the limitations of the liberal post-enlightenment tradition. Hauerwas is passionate about the importance of moral discourse within the Christian community and its implications for the Church's politics. When the Church is often perceived to be in decline and an irrelevance, Hauerwas proffers a way of recovering identity, confidence and mission, particularly for ordinary Christians and ordinary churches. Thomson evaluates the comparative strengths and weaknesses of Hauerwas' argument and indicates a number of vulnerabilities in his project.
Witness Is Presence
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Author : Miika Tolonen
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-01-07
Witness Is Presence written by Miika Tolonen and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-07 with Religion categories.
In a postsecular cultural situation the conditions for understanding and communicating a Christian tradition have changed. None of the established religions can any longer claim monopoly in the "marketplace of religions." A claim of this study is that a postsecular situation characterized, among other things, by dwindling memberships in established churches as well as a new visibility of alternative religious expressions, opens up a need to reflect on alternative ways of understanding Christianity in its context. This study focuses on the question, how can a Christian tradition be communicated understandably in a postsecular context? In traditional terms: how can Christian witness be understood in our situation? It is to this need, according to this study, that the ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas provides a meaningful perspective. This perspective becomes relevant because in a postsecular context a Christian church, even a folk church, cannot assume to be in a position of majority or power. There is, therefore, a need to ask how to understand Christianity as a community of witness that is neither in power nor a majority. The study suggests that embodiment of Christian convictions becomes a central factor in a meaningful postsecular notion of witness.
Christianity And The Culture Of Relativism In The Anthropologies Of Joseph Ratzinger And Stanley Hauerwas
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Author : Charles Ssennyondo STL STD
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-12-17
Christianity And The Culture Of Relativism In The Anthropologies Of Joseph Ratzinger And Stanley Hauerwas written by Charles Ssennyondo STL STD and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-17 with Religion categories.
Joseph Ratzinger rates relativism as the greatest challenge of the Church today. What he describes is not a new phenomenon but his theology highlights its origins and magnitude. Stanley Hauerwas fights the same battle on the Protestant side. This book attempts to discover and streamline their deliberations, showing their meeting points and where they differ, and remedies they offer to combat the crisis. It seeks to argue out the best response to relativism that can most appropriately benefit both Western and African Christendom. Despite being a Western phenomenon, relativism is no longer an exclusively Western problem. It is, rather, imposing itself as the new world culture, depicting all other cultures and perspectives as inferior. Ratzinger christened this the Dictatorship of Relativism, while Hauerwas calls it Policing of Christian Values. While Ratzingers greatest worry is relativisms denial of Truth (mostly from outside the ekklesia), for Hauerwas, relativism is not a force from without (of the Church) but part and parcel of the peoples modern ways of life, in which Christian values are persecuted in the name of peaceful existence. Both perspectives point at a crisis of cultures where the past is rejected and the future disconnected from the present, which trend inevitably leads to disintegration a leap into the dark. While the pre-Modern world sought God, the Modern world sought knowledge. The contemporary world seeks relativism. But all is not lost. The truth can still be found through the word of God and Christian culture.
Does God Exist
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Author : Hans Kung
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2006-09-22
Does God Exist written by Hans Kung and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-22 with Religion categories.
Does God exist? Who is God? And can we ultimately trust in any reality? These questions have been among the greatest subjects of human speculation since history began, but not until modern times has the reality of God been so strongly called into doubt. In this monumental study, written for men and women of all faiths (and of none), Hans Kÿng, the most renowned and controversial theologian in the world today, first traces the rise of modern atheism in the works of such great thinkers as Descartes, Pascal, Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, and them demonstrates--brilliantly and in terms that make sense to us today--why a yes to God remains a more reasonable and responsible belief than its alternative, nihilism.
Is Christian Life Possible Today
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Author : Karl Rahner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Is Christian Life Possible Today written by Karl Rahner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Religion categories.
Rediscovering The Secrets Of The Holy Of Holies
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Author : Dr. Cyril Jide Okadigwe
language : en
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2022-11-03
Rediscovering The Secrets Of The Holy Of Holies written by Dr. Cyril Jide Okadigwe and has been published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Religion categories.
As a believer in Jesus Christ, do you fully understand what it means to live a victorious Christian life daily? What is your daily mindset, and your daily goals when you battle with the enemy to live a victorious Christian life daily? Do you even know the nature of the battle, and the main battle objective when you contend with the enemy to live a victorious Christian life daily? Do you know about the ministerial disorder within the body of Christ today called fat-fed soul storage warehouse syndrome that is destroying global mission efforts within the body of Christ? Can you ascertain whether, or not, your local Church Congregation have this disorder? Are you aware that good course does not necessarily equate to the course of Jesus Christ, and that some good courses can be satanic courses in the disguise? Do you know how to differentiate the so-called good courses from the courses of Jesus Christ, and how to tell when the so-called good courses are satanic courses in the disguise? Do you know the negative implications of the read your bible! Read your bible!! admonition calls that we hear every day within the Christian communities, and how those admonition calls can potentially retard effective Christian growth, and testimonies among Christians? Using sound biblical doctrines, Evangelist Okadigwe drew from his gifted original writing skills and provided biblical-based answers to the above posed questions. He also used this book as a platform and addressed some of the key issues he believed that confront the body of Christ today.
Truths That Transform
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Author : Dennis James Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
Release Date : 1996
Truths That Transform written by Dennis James Kennedy and has been published by Fleming H. Revell Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Religion categories.
The basic doctrines of Christianity will transform your life if they are properly understood and applied.
The Christian State Of Life
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Author : Hans Urs von Balthasar
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 1983-01-01
The Christian State Of Life written by Hans Urs von Balthasar and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-01-01 with Religion categories.
"The sole purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive meditation on the foundations and background of St. Ignatius' contemplation on the 'call of Christ', on the answer we must give if we want 'to give great proof of our love' and on the choice explicitly demanded of us: either to follow Christ our Lord to the 'first state of life, which is that of observing the commandments', of which he has given us an example by his obedience to his parents; or to follow him to 'the second state, which is that of evangelical perfection', of which he has given us an example by leaving his family 'to devote himself exclusively to the service of his eternal Father'. And this so that we can 'arrive at perfection' -- which is, of course, the perfection of Christian love -- 'in whatever state or way of life God our Lord may grant us to choose...The goal of our meditation is to understand why this act of choosing a 'state or way of life' 'within our Holy Mother, the hierarchical Church' is possible and necessary in the first place, and why there should be any either-or since both ways are capable of leading us to the same 'perfection of love', just as the same act, viewed from different perspectives, can be either absolute or relative." [Preface].