What Christianity Is Not

An Exercise in "Negative" Theology

Hall

• Editorial: Cascade Books
• Año: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781621895411
• Categoría: Theology & Religion
• Categoría: Religion

What reallyisChristianity? If all thereligiouspackaging in which it is wrapped were removed, what would remain? These were Bonhoeffer's questions, and they must be ours today--even more urgently! For in many quarters Christianity is being so narrowly identified with some of its parts, cultural associations, and past ambitions that like all militant religion, it represents a threat to the planetary future.We may no longer speak clearly of the essence of Christianity, as von Harnack and other nineteenth-century thinkers did; but perhaps we may still have a sufficiently shared sense of the kerygmatic core of this faith to be able, in the face of these misrepresentations of it, to say what Christianity isnot.