God After Christendom?
Brian HaymesPaperback 2015-06-01
How did Christendom affect understandings and misunderstandings of God's ways? How do we understand God's work in and through the Church, the relation of Church and Government, and what it means, regardless of the social context of Christendom or not, for the Church to remain faithful to God?
This book is a serious attempt to reflect on the doctrine of God and the calling of the Church at this time of social change.
'If you would like to reflect seriously on what it means to believe in God in our world, and why it might matter, then read this. Deeply Christocentric, and powerfully theological, this book also manages, through story and reflection, to present ideas that matter profoundly in ways that are engaging.'
Ruth Gouldbourne, Minister of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London.
'This book faces up to the fundamental human problem and deliberately suggests "that the task of Christian discipleship today is about the business of unlearning some of these familiar ways of speaking about God". The double-voiced way of presenting their material, though superficially familiar, effectively seeks to present the truth of God in different, but complementary, ways. This is a book born of attention to our context, and the ways in which attention to the theological tradition can help articulate our contemporary experience.'
Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University of Oxford.
'In this beautiful product of long conversations and deep friendship, Haymes and Gingerich Hiebert demonstrate why Christians cannot sustain a life of peacemaking and discipleship without talking about God. Accessibly, and with solid scholarship and pastoral wisdom, they give their readers new (old) language to talk about the God who is known in history and mystery, in wonder and worship, and above all in Jesus Christ.'
Alan Kreider, author of Patient Ferment: the Growth of the Church in the Roman Empire
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How did Christendom affect understandings and misunderstandings of God's ways? How do we understand God's work in and through the Church, the relation of Church and Government, and what it means, regardless of the social context of Christendom or not, for the Church to remain faithful to God? This book is a serious attempt to reflect on the doctrine of God and the calling of the Church at this time of social change.
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How did Christendom affect understandings and misunderstandings of God's ways? How do we understand God's work in and through the Church, the relation of Church and Government, and what it means, regardless of the social context of Christendom or not, for the Church to remain faithful to God?
This book is a serious attempt to reflect on the doctrine of God and the calling of the Church at this time of social change.
'If you would like to reflect seriously on what it means to believe in God in our world, and why it might matter, then read this. Deeply Christocentric, and powerfully theological, this book also manages, through story and reflection, to present ideas that matter profoundly in ways that are engaging.'
Ruth Gouldbourne, Minister of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London.
'This book faces up to the fundamental human problem and deliberately suggests "that the task of Christian discipleship today is about the business of unlearning some of these familiar ways of speaking about God". The double-voiced way of presenting their material, though superficially familiar, effectively seeks to present the truth of God in different, but complementary, ways. This is a book born of attention to our context, and the ways in which attention to the theological tradition can help articulate our contemporary experience.'
Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University of Oxford.
'In this beautiful product of long conversations and deep friendship, Haymes and Gingerich Hiebert demonstrate why Christians cannot sustain a life of peacemaking and discipleship without talking about God. Accessibly, and with solid scholarship and pastoral wisdom, they give their readers new (old) language to talk about the God who is known in history and mystery, in wonder and worship, and above all in Jesus Christ.'
Alan Kreider, author of Patient Ferment: the Growth of the Church in the Roman Empire
Publisher Description
How did Christendom affect understandings and misunderstandings of God's ways? How do we understand God's work in and through the Church, the relation of Church and Government, and what it means, regardless of the social context of Christendom or not, for the Church to remain faithful to God? This book is a serious attempt to reflect on the doctrine of God and the calling of the Church at this time of social change.