Abiding Faith : Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety, and Violence.
Publisher: Havertown : James Clarke & Co, 2010Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780227902974
- 0227902971
- Girard, René, 1923-2015
- Girard, René, 1923-2015
- Faith
- Christian life -- Anglican authors
- Christian life -- Anglican authors
- Faith
- Girard, René, 1923-
- RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- General
- Christian life -- Anglican authors
- Faith
- RELIGION / Christian Theology / General
- 230 23
- BT771.3 .C69 2010eb
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Faith in the Crucible of Modernity; 1. Homeless Hearts; 2. Faith in "the System"; 3. The False Sacred; Part II Belonging, Believing, and Behaving; 4. At Home in Jesus Christ; 5. Faith's Knowledge; 6. Behold, I Make All Things New; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover.
Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how having faith has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of participating knowing, paradigmatic imagination, and personal transformation where it belongs as a form of life, shaped by encounter with Jesus Christ and worked out through the Eucharistic community. This is shown to have been the typical understanding of faith from Saint Paul to the Fathers to the medieval monastic theologians. Since the rise of nominalism, however,
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