A Brutal Unity : the Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church.
To describe the Church as "united" is a factual misnomer-even at its conception centuries ago. Ephraim Radner provides a robust rethinking of the doctrine of the church in light of Christianity's often violent and at times morally suspect history. He holds in tension the strange and t...
Saved in:
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Baylor University Press
2012.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Religious violence and Christian blasphemy
- Postscript: the tears of Peter
- Division is murder
- Postscript: Judas the Apostle
- The sins of the church
- Postscript: loving Jerusalem
- The conciliar ideal
- Postscript: the way together
- The limits of consensus
- Postscript: the first council
- The procedural quest for unity and its obstacles
- Postscript: the prophetic contest
- Conscience and its limits
- Postscript: the crucifixion of conscience
- Multiple consciences and the rise of solidarity
- Postscript: a figural phenomenology of the church
- The unity of sacrifice.
