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To change the world : the irony, tragedy, and possibility of Christianity in the late modern world / James Davison Hunter.
LIBRA BR517 .H86 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunter, James Davison, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church and the world.
- Christianity--United States.
- Christianity.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Christian faith and the task of world-changing
- Culture: the common view
- The failure of the common view
- An alternative view of culture and cultural change in eleven propositions
- Evidence in history
- The cultural economy of American Christianity
- For and against the mandate of creation
- The problem of power
- Power and politics in American culture
- The Christian Right
- The Christian Left
- The neo-Anabaptists
- Illusion, irony, and tragedy
- Rethinking power: theological reflections
- The challenge of faithfulness
- Old cultural wineskins
- The groundwork for an alternative way
- Toward a theology of faithful presence
- The burden of leadership: a theology of faithful presence in practice
- Toward a new city commons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-344) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199730803
- 0199730806
- OCLC:
- 427757187
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