New Testament Micro-Ethics: On Trusting Freedom: The First Christians' Genotype for Multicultural Living - Couverture rigide

Anderson, Raymond Kemp

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1532647395 ISBN 13 : 9781532647390

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

Anderson shows how Early Christians' faith took root in a multicultural world just as diverse and conflicted as our own. Their basic attitude turns out to have been one of astounding freedom--not a cultus of rules, but a matter of whole-hearted response; for they lived in conversation with the One whose love for all his wayward creatures is utterly tenacious. We find ourselves continually surprised by an insistent grace that treasures all persons equally while exposing and deposing our evil. Such faith still evokes basic confidence; and we find ourselves, ever again moved by gratitude and trusting each others' Christ-emboldened freedom. If we are embraced by grace, our becoming "great again" can only mean unlimited concern for all and free-flowing interactive service. The playful work ethic that ensues holds promise for our politically splintered post-industrial age. The New Testament's seed-like ethical genotype still unfolds into a secure, all-embracing, and mutually supportive "sabbatic" life stance. What could be more relevant for our future in conflicted times?

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À propos des auteurs

Raymond Kemp Anderson served many years as Professor and Chairman of the Philosophy and Religion Department at Wilson College, Pennsylvania. He did his doctoral studies under the eminent Reformed theologian Karl Barth at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and is an ordained minister and leader in the Presbyterian Church. His works focus on Biblical ethics in the Reformed Church tradition. He is the author of An American Scholar Recalls Karl Barth's Golden Years as a Teacher, and Karl Barth's Table Talk.

Raymond Carr is an international public theologian. His research interests are theologically ecumenical, historically sensitive, and radically inclusive. He is a visiting professor and director of the Codex Charles H. Long Papers Project at Harvard Divinity School, a research scholar at the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project at Harvard University, and the president elect of the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1532647395
• ISBN 13: 9781532647390
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 118
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