Reconstructing Christian Theology
Title | Reconstructing Christian Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca S. Chopp |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781451416510 |
Christian theology needs to be reconstructed in light of recent and momentous intellectual changes, social revolutions, and steep pedagogical challenges. That is the conviction of many of North America's leading theologians whose close collaboration over several years bring us this exciting volume. Reconstructing Christian Theology introduces theology in such a way that readers can discern the relevance of historical materials, pose theological questions, and begin to think theologically for themselves. Further, like other projects of the Workgroup on Constructive Theology, this volume stems from a deep desire to model a credible, creative, and engaged contemporary theology. So each chapter tackles major Christian teaching, juxtaposes it with a significant social or cultural challenge, and then reconstructs each in light of the other. The result is an innovative and compelling way to learn how theology can contribute to rethinking the most pressing issues of our day.
Reconstructing the Gospel
Title | Reconstructing the Gospel PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830847979 |
Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ, showing that when the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings for both individuals and society as a whole.
Christian Reconstruction
Title | Christian Reconstruction PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. McVicar |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2015-04-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1469622750 |
This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001). Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony's personal papers and extensive correspondence, Michael J. McVicar demonstrates the considerable role Reconstructionism played in the development of the radical Christian Right and an American theocratic agenda. As a religious movement, Reconstructionism aims at nothing less than "reconstructing" individuals through a form of Christian governance that, if implemented in the lives of U.S. citizens, would fundamentally alter the shape of American society. McVicar examines Rushdoony's career and traces Reconstructionism as it grew from a grassroots, populist movement in the 1960s to its height of popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He reveals the movement's galvanizing role in the development of political conspiracy theories and survivalism, libertarianism and antistatism, and educational reform and homeschooling. The book demonstrates how these issues have retained and in many cases gained potency for conservative Christians to the present day, despite the decline of the movement itself beginning in the 1990s. McVicar contends that Christian Reconstruction has contributed significantly to how certain forms of religiosity have become central, and now familiar, aspects of an often controversial conservative revolution in America.
Reconstructing Early Christian Worship
Title | Reconstructing Early Christian Worship PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bradshaw |
Publisher | SPCK |
Pages | 123 |
Release | 2012-05-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0281062978 |
The book should be seen in the context of Paul Bradshaw's earlier works: The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship and Eucharistic Origins. In this book he updates his thinking in this area, focussing on the origins of the Eucharist, Baptism and Daily Prayer. The controversial introductory chapter is entitled: Did Jesus Institute the Eucharist at the Last Supper?
Reconstructing the Church
Title | Reconstructing the Church PDF eBook |
Author | William Allen Harper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN |
Reconstructing Pastoral Theology
Title | Reconstructing Pastoral Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Purves |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780664227333 |
In Pastoral Care in the Classical Tradition, Andrew Purves argued that pastoral care and theology has long ignored Scripture and Christian doctrine, and pastoral practice has become secularized in both method and goal, the fiefdom of psychology and the social sciences. He builds further on this idea here, presenting a christological basis for ministry and pastoral theology.
Reconstructing Christianity in China
Title | Reconstructing Christianity in China PDF eBook |
Author | Philip L. Wickeri |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Pages | 527 |
Release | 2015-03-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1608333663 |