Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety, and Violence Cowdell, Scott creator author. text Electronic books. enk 2010 2009 monographic eng 1 online resource (233 pages) 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, 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. Includes bibliographical references. 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 BT771.3 .C69 2010eb 230 Cowdell, Scott. Havertown : James Clarke & Co, 2010 9780227902974 0227902971 22573/ctt1cg7vc4 JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=803693 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=803693 EBLCP 140712 20200709060144.0 ocn883568637 eng