A Brutal Unity
eBook - PDF

A Brutal Unity

The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church

  1. 488 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Brutal Unity

The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church

About this book

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 transcendent oneness of God with the necessarily temporal and political function of the Church, and, in so doing, shows how the goals and failures of the liberal democratic state provide revelatory experiences that greatly enhance one's understanding of the nature of Christian unity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page, Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Epigraph
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Religious Violence and Christian Blasphemy
  8. 2. Division Is Murder
  9. 3. The Sins of the Church
  10. 4. The Conciliar Ideal
  11. 5. The Limits of Consensus
  12. 6. The Procedural Quest for Unity and Its Obstacles
  13. 7. Conscience and Its Limits
  14. 8. Multiple Consciences and the Rise of Solidarity
  15. 9. The Unity of Sacrifice
  16. Conclusion
  17. Scripture Index
  18. Subject Index