TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowdell,Scott
TI  - Abiding Faith: Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety, and Violence
SN  - 9780227902974
AV  - BT771.3 .C69 2010eb
U1  - 230 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Havertown
PB  - James Clarke & Co
KW  - Girard, René,
KW  - Faith
KW  - Christian life
KW  - Anglican authors
KW  - Girard, René, 1923-
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - 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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