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Catechesis is not just about right teaching, it is a cultivation of
a living faith within the community of the Church. Christian faith
and theology are performed in the sacramental, communal, and
missional life of the Church, and catechesis is an invitation into
this lived reality. This book explores the nature of catechesis and
how catechesis within our churches can shape the Christian
community into an instrument of renewal in the world through the
formation of holy living. It argues that the future of catechesis
in the life of the Church is to be found in this holistic
discipleship, and explores this holistic vision by examining
catechesis in its relationship to Christian worship and liturgy,
the teaching of doctrine, mission and social action, evangelism,
preaching, communal life, and the sacraments.
The Christian faith is something people practice. The Church prays,
listens to the Scriptures, celebrates the sacraments, cares for the
suffering, and liberates the oppressed. This is where the task of
theology begins. In "Love Makes No Sense", each chapter engages
central issues of theology but remains focused on the Christian
life. Although it is a book about doctrine-Christian teaching-it
insists that one cannot present a doctrine of the Trinity, or
Incarnation, or anything else in the abstract. Teaching divorced
from everyday life is not Christian teaching. This does not mean
this book is primarily 'practical' as opposed to 'theological'. It
is an invitation to Christian theology that refuses to separate the
two. The aim of this book is not to satisfy the intellect, but to
train its readers through approachable theological teaching to live
the love that Christian theology proclaims. Suitable for people
looking to explore Christian theology more deeply, be they
life-long Christians who want a deeper understanding of their
faith, new Christians, or those who are interested in the Christian
faith and looking to find out more.
We can't truly participate in prayer, or worship, or the
sacraments, or the reading of Scripture, and so on, in a way that
is divorced from the doctrine of the Trinity, or the Incarnation,
or the Resurrection. Following on from its predecessor, Love Makes
No Sense each chapter in this book deals with central issues of
Christian practice, and presents an introduction to Christian
doctrine without losing focus of the lived Christian life. The book
sets forth central aspects of Christian living and practice that
are the natural expression of those doctrines when they are
understood properly as a lived phenomenon.
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