The Peculiar Dialect of Faith
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The Peculiar Dialect of Faith

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The Peculiar Dialect of Faith

About this book

Biblical utterance, in contrast to the sounds of power and certitude, offers imaginative probes into the mystery of God's creation and into the hidden complexities of human hurt and human hope. Thus the dialect of the Bible is offered in relational terms, so that the key ingredients to lived reality characteristically concern justice and righteousness, steadfast love, faithfulness, and compassion. Insofar as the church relies upon and attests to this dialect, we may expect that in church we will speak in a different rhetoric, and consequently we will speak about different subject matter. To be sure, the church is sometimes seduced away from this relational dialect to speak in cadences that are elementally alien to the Bible and to the claims of the gospel. Such seduction of the church takes place, for example, when our nation is at war and the church is tempted to reflect and reiterate the force of that social reality. Or such seduction occurs when the church is captured by any ism, notably in our time, racism or nationalism. Or alternatively, ideological conservatism that craves the language of certitude or ideological liberalism that is easily bewitched by the rhetoric of psychology or the market. When the church is domesticated to such alien claims, it loses its distinctiveness, and consequently loses its nerve and its courage for serious mission. Thus attentiveness to our peculiar dialect is an important investment. --from the Preface

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Information

Publisher
Cascade Books
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781666715170
9781666715187
eBook ISBN
9781666715194
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1: The Peculiar Dialect of Faith
  4. Chapter 2: The Duty and the Destiny of a Shoveler
  5. Chapter 3: The Force of Ownership
  6. Chapter 4: The God of the Second Wind
  7. Chapter 5: The God Laden with Narrative Specificity and Participial Constancy
  8. Chapter 6: The God Who Finishes
  9. Chapter 7: The Mandate to Be Unlike the Others
  10. Chapter 8: The Protocols of Scarcity
  11. Chapter 9: The Surprise of Free Health Care
  12. Chapter 10: The Tasks of Our Faith Identity
  13. Chapter 11: “To Hell with It” . . . Not!
  14. Chapter 12: Truth or Consequences
  15. Chapter 13: Two Questions at Day Break
  16. Chapter 14: We Sing What We Cannot Say
  17. Chapter 15: Young Men, Young Girls, Flowers . . . Where?
  18. Bibliography

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