Becoming a Christian in Christendom : radical discipleship and the way of the cross in America's "Christian" culture / Jason A. Mahn.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mahn, Jason A., 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--United States--21st century.

Christianity.

Christian life--United States--21st century.

Christian life.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 363 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress, 2016.

Summary:

"How might one live the Christian faith within a culture that idealizes and privileges Christianity while also relativizing it and making it redundant? Arguing for a reconceptualization of the theology of the cross and radical communal practices, Jason A. Mahn explores some pervasive dangers of America's new Christendom and provocatively imagines alternatives to conventional Christianity-alternatives whereby the church embodies an alternative politic, commits to cruciform non-violence, appreciates gifts by giving them away, and knows its boundaries well enough to learn from those on the other side".

Contents:

Christendom, then and now

Unpacking Christian privilege

Purveyors of comfort and Kierkegaard's call to discipleship

Upstanding patriotic citizens and Bonhoeffer's faithful resistance

Church as chaplain and contemporary critics of Constantine

ECONOMY: free grace in a culture of cheap

POLITICS: getting radical and staying ordinary

WAR: subversions of the cross

RELIGION: guests in the house of Israel

Conclusion: becoming (a) Christian in Christendom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index.

ISBN:

1451469276

9781451469271

OCLC:

951227294