The Church for the World - Jennifer McBride

The Church for the World
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Autor: Jennifer McBride

 Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199367948
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Oprawa: miękka
Stron: 320
Data wydania: 2014-04-01
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Drawing on the writings of German pastor-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jennifer M. McBride constructs a groundbreaking theology of public witness for Protestant church communities in the United States. In contrast to the triumphal manner in which many Protestants have engaged the public sphere, The Church for the World shows how the church can offer a nontriumphal witness to the lordship of Christ through repentant activity in public life. After investigating current Christian conceptions of witness in the United States, McBride offers a new theology for repentance as public witness, based on Bonhoeffer's thought concerning Christ, the world, and the church. McBride takes up Bonhoeffer's proposal that repentance may be reinterpreted "non-religiously," expanding and challenging common understandings of the concept. Finally, she examines two church communities that exemplify ecclesial commitments and practices rooted in confession of sin and repentance. Through these communities she demonstrates that confession and repentance may be embodied in various ways yet also discerns distinguishing characteristics of a redemptive public witness. The Church for the World offers important insights about Christian particularity and public engagement in a pluralistic society as it provides a theological foundation for public witness that is simultaneously bold and humble: when its mode of being in the world is confession of sin unto repentance, the church demonstrates Christ's redemptive work and becomes a vehicle of concrete redemption. "This refreshing study of Christian activism appeals to Bonhoeffer's deeply Luteheran Christology and transcends the usual stereotypes of evangelicals as right-wingers and mainliners as left-wingers...this books merits attention, not only as a Bonhoeffer study but also as the witness of the social consciousness of McBride herself, a young evangelical."--Lutheran Quarterly"I am interested in convincing as many people as possible to purchase and read this book."--Word World"This remarkable study is important in two aspects: it is theology with Bonhoeffer beyond Bonhoeffer, and it is translating Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology into the free church and democratic system of the USA. This is public theology at its best." --Professor Jurgen Moltmann, author of The Theology ofHope"The Church for the World is an important book that deserves a wide audience inside and outside the academy. Critics of the religious right and the religious left abound; yet alternative visions of public witness often remain abstract or nostalgic. Blending ethnography and profound theological analysis, McBride offers a first-rate study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that shows what confession and repentance might look like for today's church and world." --Eric Gregory, Professor of Religion, Princeton University"The Church for the World is a fine theological account of how North American Protestants can render non-triumphalist public witness in a pluralist setting. The close reading and use of Bonhoeffer's theology, together with ethnographic studies of church communities, give McBride's work gratifying nuance and depth." --Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary"

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Jennifer McBride