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Secret faith in the public square : an argument for the concealment of Christian identity / Jonathan Malesic.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, c2009.Description: 248 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781587432262
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.40973 22
LOC classification:
  • BV4509.5 .M2563 2009
Contents:
Introduction: Secrecy and Christian faith in contemporary America -- Promoting secrecy in a Christian empire : Cyril of Jerusalem's discipline of the secret -- Liturgical secrecy as Cyril's defense against opportunism and imperial authority -- The secret of faith in Kierkegaard's Works of love -- How Kierkegaard's secret agape subverts bourgeois culture -- Bonhoeffer's Arkandisziplin : Christian confession in a world come of age -- The limits of Arkandisziplin and of the secular -- The secret-keeping self and Christian responsibility for the other -- The church as a community of hidden disciples -- Secret faith's fulfillment of the church's mission in America : an engagement with Hauerwas -- Epilogue: The challenge of ambiguous religious identity in Wise blood and The moviegoer.
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248.4 T686A Aflame : 248.4 W187S Selling ourselves short : 248.4 Y83C The call of a lifetime : 248.409 M246S Secret faith in the public square : 248.409 R643U United in marriage by one Lord: 248.4092 C432A Alexandrian Christianity : 248.44 W952F Following Jesus

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Secrecy and Christian faith in contemporary America -- Promoting secrecy in a Christian empire : Cyril of Jerusalem's discipline of the secret -- Liturgical secrecy as Cyril's defense against opportunism and imperial authority -- The secret of faith in Kierkegaard's Works of love -- How Kierkegaard's secret agape subverts bourgeois culture -- Bonhoeffer's Arkandisziplin : Christian confession in a world come of age -- The limits of Arkandisziplin and of the secular -- The secret-keeping self and Christian responsibility for the other -- The church as a community of hidden disciples -- Secret faith's fulfillment of the church's mission in America : an engagement with Hauerwas -- Epilogue: The challenge of ambiguous religious identity in Wise blood and The moviegoer.

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