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In this book, leading American Lutheran theologians, inspired by
the Scandinavian emphasis on theology as embodied practice, ask how
Christian communities might be mobilized for resistance against
systemic injustices. They argue that the challenges we confront
today as citizens of the United States, as a species in relation to
all the other species on the planet, and as members of the body of
Christ require an imaginative reconceptualization of the inherited
tradition. The driving force of each chapter is the commitment to
truth-telling in naming the church's complicity with social and
political evils, and to reorienting the church to the truth of
grace that Christianity was created to communicate. Contributors
ask how ecclesial resources may be generatively repurposed for the
church in the world today, for church-building grounded in Christ
and for empowering the church's witness for justice. The authors
take up the theme of resistance in both theoretical and pragmatic
terms, on the one hand, rethinking doctrine, on the other,
reconceiving lived religion and pastoral care, in light of the
necessary urgencies of the time, and bearing witness to the God
whose truth includes both justice and hope.
In this book, leading American Lutheran theologians, inspired by
the Scandinavian emphasis on theology as embodied practice, ask how
Christian communities might be mobilized for resistance against
systemic injustices. They argue that the challenges we confront
today as citizens of the United States, as a species in relation to
all the other species on the planet, and as members of the body of
Christ require an imaginative reconceptualization of the inherited
tradition. The driving force of each chapter is the commitment to
truth-telling in naming the church's complicity with social and
political evils, and to reorienting the church to the truth of
grace that Christianity was created to communicate. Contributors
ask how ecclesial resources may be generatively repurposed for the
church in the world today, for church-building grounded in Christ
and for empowering the church's witness for justice. The authors
take up the theme of resistance in both theoretical and pragmatic
terms, on the one hand, rethinking doctrine, on the other,
reconceiving lived religion and pastoral care, in light of the
necessary urgencies of the time, and bearing witness to the God
whose truth includes both justice and hope.
Many congregations today are beset by fears, whether over loss of
members and money, or of irrelevancy in an increasingly pluralistic
society. To counter this, many congregations focus on strategy and
purposewhat churches "do"but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline
churches need to focus instead on "what" or "who" they areto
reclaim a theological, rather than sociological, understanding of
themselves. To do this, she places the questions of the church's
identity and mission into a conversation with the primary
ecclesiological paradigms of the past century: the neo-Reformation
concept of the church as a "word event" and the ecumenical
paradigms of the church as "communion." She argues that these two
paradigms assume a context of cultural Christendom that no longer
existsfocused on the church that is gatheredrather than the
missional church that is sent out. Peterson suggests instead that
we understand the church as a people created by the Spirit to be a
community, and that we must claim a narrative method to explore the
church's identityspecifically, the story of the church's origin in
the Acts of the Apostles. Finally, here is a way of thinking of
church that reconciles the best of competing models of church for
the future of mainline Protestant theology.
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