The Church in a secular age: a pneumatological reconstruction of Stanley Hauerwas's ecclesiology
How can the church navigate the challenges of our secular age? In The Church in a Secular Age, Norwegian and Pentecostal scholar Silje Kvamme Bjørndal takes on three dynamic thinkers, each in their own way, in search for insights to this question. Philosopher Charles Taylor offers the backdrop for t...
| Published in: | Princeton theological monographs series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Eugene, Oregon
Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers
2018
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Princeton theological monographs series (233)
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| Series/Journal: | Princeton theological monographs series
233 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hauerwas, Stanley 1940-
/ Pneumatology
/ Ecclesiology
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| Further subjects: | B
Holy Spirit
B Church B 1900-2099 B 1940- B Church History of doctrines 20th century B 21st Century B 20th Century B Hauerwas, Stanley B Church History of doctrines 21st century B History of doctrines B Hauerwas, Stanley (1940-) B Holy Spirit History of doctrines 20th century B Holy Spirit History of doctrines 21st century |
| Summary: | How can the church navigate the challenges of our secular age? In The Church in a Secular Age, Norwegian and Pentecostal scholar Silje Kvamme Bjørndal takes on three dynamic thinkers, each in their own way, in search for insights to this question. Philosopher Charles Taylor offers the backdrop for the conversation, as Bjørndal carefully sifts out some of his most central tenets for understanding our secular age. Bjørndal then turns to the theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas and critically engages his notion of the church as a community set apart from our secular age. By bringing several of Hauerwas's interlocutors into the conversation, Bjørndal manages to bring out both the acute relevance and the shortcomings of his ecclesiology. Thus, she finds that another turn is needed in order to offer a concrete, as well as creative, contribution to this ecclesiological conversation. Considering the undeveloped pneumatological undercurrent in Hauerwas's work, it proves fruitful to engage the leading Pentecostal scholar Amos Yong and his foundational pneumatology. This engagement results in a shift of agency, from the community to the Spirit. And keeping up the dialogue with Taylor's secular age, Bjørndal demonstrates how the Spirit's agency is crucial for the church as it attempts to navigate the particular challenges (and opportunities) of a secular age. - Back cover |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index |
| ISBN: | 1532632797 |