Toxic Spirituality: Four Enduring Temptations of Christian Faith - Couverture souple

Gritsch, Eric W.

 
9780800664411: Toxic Spirituality: Four Enduring Temptations of Christian Faith
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0800664418 ISBN 13 : 9780800664411
Editeur : Augsburg Fortress, 2009

Synopsis

G.K. Chesterton long ago observed that real Christianity had in some ways never really been tried. Eric Gritsch, a renowned historian, a pastor, and a theologian for half a century, offers Christianity a reality check, exposing four historical movements that have weakened and abused the core of the Christian tradition. These movements represent wayward views on the relationships between Christians and Jews; between the authority of Scripture and tradition; between the church and worldy power; and between faith and morals. Readers encounter these wayward traditions in their historical trajectories, in the ways these traditions have diminished the gospel, and in the ways they have been impediments of an effective contemporary Christian witness. They represent the enduring temptation to be "like God" (Gen. 3:5), a temptation marked by a zeal for secure, unchanging, and ultimate Christian life on Earth. The author confronts these wayward traditions with the enduring challenge of faithful, cruciform, penultimate discipleship in the time between the first and second advent of Christ.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eric W. Gritsch was Emeritus Professor of Church History at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Among his many works are Fortress Introduction to Lutheranism (1994), Lutheranism: The Theological Movement and Its Confessional Writings (with Robert W. Jenson, 1976), Thomas Muntzer: A Tragedy of Errors (1989), and the anthology Martin Luther: Faith in Christ and the Gospel (1996).

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Éditeur
Augsburg Fortress
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0800664418
ISBN 13 
9780800664411
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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