Making the best of it : following Christ in the real world / John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stackhouse, John G., Jr., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

x, 370 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction: Who Are We, for Jesus Christ, Today? 3

Part I The Classic Typology

1 Reappropriating H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture 13

Reappropriating the Typology of Christ and Culture

Part II Some Resources for the Recovery of Christian Realism

2 C. S. Lewis: The Christian Individual 45

The Christian Story

The Elements and Shape of the Story

Themes in a Theology of Culture

Conclusion: C. S. Lewis's "Parables"

3 Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophet of Christian Realism 81

Is Christianity Realistic?

What Is Christian Realism?

Implications of Christian Realism

Conclusion: Niebuhr's Legacy

4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Christian and the Church in and for the World 115

The Heart of Bonhoeffer's Theology

Conclusion: Stations on the Way to Freedom

Part III Making the Best of it

5 Method in Ethics: A Sketch 165

Attending to Jesus

A (Protestant) Christian Tetralectic

The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Receptivity

6 The Story and the Mission 181

The Christian Story-and Us Within It

Mission: The Four Commandments

7 Vocation 221

Human

Christian

Time

Conclusion: Mission and Vocation

8 Principles of a New Realism 261

A Mixed Field, Mixed Motives, and Mixed Results

The Normal ... and Beyond

Faith and Faithfulness

Liberty and Cooperation

Conclusion: Making the Best of It 309

The Shape of Our Lives

Behaving in Public

Governing Motifs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780195173581

0195173589

OCLC:

167503462