| Description |
1 online resource (x, 221 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Faith in the Crucible of Modernity; 1. Homeless Hearts; 2. Faith in "the System"; 3. The False Sacred; Part II Belonging, Believing, and Behaving; 4. At Home in Jesus Christ; 5. Faith's Knowledge; 6. Behold, I Make All Things New; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how having faith has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of participating knowing, paradigmatic imagination, and personal transformation where it belongs as a form of life, shaped by encounter with Jesus Christ and worked out through the Eucharistic community. This is shown to have been the typical understanding of faith from Saint Paul to the Fathers to the medieval monastic theologians. Since the rise of nominalism, however, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Girard, René, 1923-2015.
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| SUBJECT |
Girard, René, 1923-2015 fast |
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Faith.
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Christian life -- Anglican authors.
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faith.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
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Christian life -- Anglican authors
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Faith
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780227902974 |
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0227902971 |
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