Resisting Babel: Allegiance to God and the Problem of Government - Couverture souple

Hicks, John Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1684264502 ISBN 13 : 9781684264506

Editeur : Abilene Christian University Press, 2020

Synopsis

"If the kingdom of God demands exclusive allegiance, how do followers of Jesus engage with a world shaped by political power? After the trauma of the Civil War, David Lipscomb, a Nashville farmer and church leader, advocated for allegiance solely in the kingdom of God rather than in human governments. Resisting Babel tells the story of Lipscomb's compelling, coherent, and eschatologically grounded vision, which fostered deep and significant religious reform in the United States and led to missionary zeal across the globe. That vision articulated a way forward for Christianity amidst the world powers, though it was later subverted by those powers, both by its own implicit assumptions from within and the overwhelming forces of Babel without. What happened among Churches of Christ during that time serves as a case study and parable of both possibility and warning for the modern church"--

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À propos de l?auteur

John Mark Hicks is a professor of theology at Lipscomb University and has taught in higher education among Churches of Christ for over thirty-five years. He has published several works on Stone-Campbell history and theology, especially the theology of Churches of Christ, including Kingdom Come: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of David Lipscomb and James Harding.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abilene Christian University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1684264502
• ISBN 13: 9781684264506
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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