The Church as Counterculture
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The Church as Counterculture

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Church as Counterculture

About this book

Explores a new Christian identity in which churches reclaim their roles as communities of disciples to constitute a countercultural reality and challenge to secular society and existing power relations.

The question, "What does it mean to be 'the church'?" has always been among the most controversial and of vital concern to political, economic, and ecclesial leaders alike. How it is answered influences whether Christianity will be a force for legitimating or subverting existing secular relations of power, influence, and privilege. The Church as Counterculture enters the debates on Christian identity, purpose, and organization by calling for the churches to reclaim their roles as "communities of disciples"-distinct and distinctive groups formed by the priorities and practices of Jesus-to constitute a countercultural reality and challenge to secular society and existing power relations.

The notion of the church as a countercultural community of disciples confounds many conventional divides within the Christian family (liberal and conservative, church and sect), while forcing redefinition of commonplace categories like religion and politics, sacred and secular. The contributors to this book-theologians, social theorists, philosophers, historians, Catholics and Protestants of various backgrounds-reflect this shifting of categories and divisions. The book provides thought-provoking Christian perspectives on war and genocide, racism and nationalism, the legitimacy of liberalism and capitalism, and more.

Contributors include Michael J. Baxter, Robert W. Brimlow, Walter Brueggemann, Michael L. Budde, Curt Cadorette, Rodney Clapp, Roberto S. Goizueta, Stanley Hauerwas, Marianne Sawicki, and Michael Warren.

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Table of contents

  1. The Church as Counterculture
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Practicing the Politics of Jesus
  5. 2. Always in the Shadow of the Empire
  6. 3. Salt and Leaven: Resistances to Empire in the Street-Smart Paleochurch
  7. 4. The Nonviolent Terrorist: In Defense of Christian Fantacism
  8. 5. Solomon's Porch: The Church as Sectarian Ghetto
  9. 6. Decisons That Inscribe Life's Patterns
  10. 7. Legion and the Believing Community: Discipleship in an Imerial Age
  11. 8. "There You Will See Him": Christianity beyond the Frontier Myth
  12. 9. "Blowing the Dynamite of the Church": Catholic Radicalism from a Catholic Radicalist Perspective
  13. 10. Pledging Allegiance: Reflections on Discipleship and the Church after Rwanda
  14. Contributors
  15. Index