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Believing into Christ - Relational Faith and Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
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Believing into Christ - Relational Faith and Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
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Across lines of tradition and denomination, many Christians express
a purely propositional sense of belief, focused primarily on the
existence of God and facts about Christ, contributing to a
transactional approach to salvation. But belief is about more than
the simple fact of God's existence. Augustine provides a starting
point for restoring the relational sense of belief encapsulated in
the phrase "believing into Christ." In Believing into Christ,
Natalya Cherry explores this unique, grammatically awkward phrase
that Augustine recognized and identified in his preaching as
describing Christianity's distinct contribution to human
flourishing. Around this idea, Augustine established and
systematized a three-part formula for belief, one which his
theological successors treated as defining Christian faith. Cherry
tracks the origins of "believing into Christ" and its loss in
translation. She then crafts a constructive theology that addresses
how to restore the phrase and all it entails. Such a view of belief
involves transforming catechesis and sacramental practices that can
equip believers to overcome oppression and social barriers in
contemporary ecclesial communities and the world they inhabit.
Questions regularly arise about how one can believe in a loving God
while being complicit with, or actively participating in, systems
of violence and oppression. Christian faith informs our resistance
against those systems when we practice the bold surrender
engendered by believing into Christ. In this way, Cherry challenges
us to consider the relational sense of belief, clinging to Christ
by means of the Holy Spirit in a way that directs every
relationship toward human flourishing, as the heart of Christian
faith.
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