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Becoming a Christian In Christendom

Radical Discipleship and the Way of the Cross in America's "Christian" Culture
  • ISBN-13: 9781451469271
  • Publisher: AUGSBURG FORTRESS PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Jason A. Mahn
  • Price: AUD $73.99
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  • Local release date: 01/11/2016
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 395 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Christian theology [HRCM]USA [1KBB]
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How might one live the Christian faith within a culture that idealizes and privileges Christianity while also relativizing it, rendering it redundant and innocuous? Arguing for a reconceptualization of the theology of the cross and radical communal practices, this book brings together two clusters of critics of Christian acculturation and accommodation: (1) Lutherans such as Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer who lift up radical discipleship against the propensity toward "cheap grace," and (2) various "Anti-Constantinians," including nee-monastic communities, who resists the church's collusion with power politics, symbolized by the conversion of Constantine in the early fourth century. Mahn provocatively imagines alternatives to conventional Christianity - ones whereby the church embodies an alternative politic, where it commits to cruciform non-violence, appreciates gifts by giving them away, and knows its boundaries well enough to learn from those on the other side.
Jason A. Mahn is associate professor and chair of religion at Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. He earned a PhD in theology at Emory University and is the author of Fortunate Fallibility: Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin (2011).
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