A change of heart : a personal and theological memoir / Thomas C. Oden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oden, Thomas C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oden, Thomas C.

United Methodist Church (U.S.)--Biography.

United Methodist Church (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How did one of last century's most celebrated liberals change so dramatically? In this intellectual and spiritual memoir, Thomas Oden journeys from conservative rural Methodism in Oklahoma to free-spirited theological innovation in the land of academia and back to the foundations of ancient Christianity.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part 1: Early Years""; ""1 The 1930s: Prairie Dawn""; ""Dust Bowl Beginnings""; ""Growing Up""; ""2 The 1940s: A World at War""; ""After Pearl Harbor""; ""The Return Home""; ""3 The 1950s: Love and Learning""; ""Collegiate Years""; ""The Seminary Experience""; ""Yale""; ""4 The 1960s: The Church of What�s Happening Now""; ""Ten Years as a Movement Theologian""; ""The Heidelberg Year: 1965�1966""; ""Travels to Odenwald and Jerusalem""; ""The Structure of Awareness""; ""Part 2: Change of Heart""

""5 The 1970s: The U-Turn""""Life at Drew""; ""How the Sacred Texts Began Interpreting Me""; ""The Dream of Unoriginality""; ""Regrounding Pastoral Care""; ""The Politics of Repentance""; ""Classic Christianity After the Collapse of Modern Ideologies""; ""The Struggle for the Soul of Theological Education""; ""Celebrating the Unbroken Ecumenical Consensus""; ""6 The 1980s: Charting the Course""; ""Watersheds""; ""Meanwhile at the Zoo""; ""The Gratifying Career of Graduate Teaching""; ""The Controversy Stirred by Agenda for Theology""

""How Ratzinger Planted the Seeds for the Patristic Commentary""""Part 3: Homeward Bound""; ""7 The 1990s: The Outpouring of Grace""; ""Meeting John Paul II and Ratzinger in Rome""; ""Eyewitness to the Collapse of the Soviet Union""; ""Witnessing the Evangelical Revival in Cuba""; ""The Birth of the Patristic Commentary""; ""Requiem for Theological Education""; ""Retreat to Chickasaw Nation""; ""Classic Ecumenism""; ""8 The 2000s: A Time of Harvest""; ""The Cusp of the Millennium""; ""How the Confessing Movements Began to Turn Around the Mainline""; ""Writing in the New Millennium""

""The Outcomes of the Commentary""""Turning the Heart Toward Africa""; ""Africa�s Gift""; ""9 The 2010s: After Eight Decades""; ""Egret Point""; ""The African Trilogy""; ""Looking Back""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Writings by Thomas C. Oden""; ""1960s""; ""1970s""; ""1980s""; ""1990s""; ""2000s""; ""2010s""; ""Notes""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: The 1930s""; ""Chapter 2: The 1940s""; ""Chapter 3: The 1950s""; ""Chapter 4: The 1960s""; ""Chapter 5: The 1970s""; ""Chapter 6: The 1980s""; ""Chapter 7: The 1990s""; ""Chapter 8: The 2000s""; ""Chapter 9: The 2010s""

""Index of Names and Institutions""""Praise for Change of Heart""; ""About the Author""; ""More Titles from InterVarsity Press""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780830880195

0830880194

OCLC:

897815224