Never-ending Prayer: A Case for the Christian Tradition - Couverture souple

Hoedemaker, Bert

 
9780718896027: Never-ending Prayer: A Case for the Christian Tradition
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0718896025 ISBN 13 : 9780718896027
Editeur : Lutterworth Press, 2022

Synopsis

Is Christian 'tradition' to be maintained as the absolute body of truth? Can it be used selectively depending on the preferences of individual believers? What can 'religious truth' possibly mean in our age of opinions and overwhelming cultural diversity? These are unsettling questions for Christians, their effect aggravated by our daily encounter with non-western cultures and non-Christian religions, and by the increasing presentation of secularism and atheism as the 'normal' way of life. In Never-Ending Prayer, Bert Hoedemaker outlines the continuing importance of tradition, while showing that in facing these challenges our understanding of tradition needs a 'reset'. Drawing on his own experiences of world Christianity, he reconstructs the Christian tradition in such a way that it no longer defines and defends itself as a specific body of concepts and practices over against 'the world' but as a living community originating in and remaining in interaction with humanity's permanent struggles. It is presented as a system of religious imagination in which prayer is the driving force and reconciliation is seen as the destination of humankind.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr Libertus Hoedemaker is Professor Emeritus of Groningen State University and the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Netherlands. He has held academic positions in Indonesia and the Netherlands, and guest professorships in the USA, Hong Kong and Switzerland. His previous publications include The Theology of H. Richard Niebuhr; Secularization and Mission: A Theological Essay; and a chapter in Foust et al, A Scandalous Prophet: The Way of Mission after Newbigin.

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Éditeur
Lutterworth Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0718896025
ISBN 13 
9780718896027
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
136
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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