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Confronting a Controlling God: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination - Couverture souple

Wallace, Catherine M.

 
9781498228930: Confronting a Controlling God: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1498228933 ISBN 13 : 9781498228930
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2016

Synopsis

Christianity has lost control of its brand. That matters even for nonbelievers because Christian symbolism permeates Western culture. It shapes the source code for how we think about ourselves and what we expect from one another. If God is all-controlling, then human control is divinely sanctioned. Our efforts to control one another have cosmic legitimacy--the legitimacy claimed by fundamentalists pursuing a political agenda that has nothing to do with Jesus of Nazareth. But if God is defined as compassion and loving-kindness, then Christianity calls the faithful to compassion and radical hospitality. Wallace traces the backstory of this vitally important tension all the way back to competing translations of Moses's argument with the burning bush, arguing for a "Copernican turn" in which the spiritual encounter with compassionate Presence lies at the heart of Christianity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Catherine Miles Wallace is a cultural historian on the faculty of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is the author of For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives (Knopf, 1998).

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1498228933
ISBN 13 
9781498228930
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
132
Coordonnées du fabricant
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