{"product_id":"becoming-a-christian-in-christendom-457662","title":"Becoming a Christian in Christendom","description":"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.","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51568305864991,"sku":"9781451469271","price":54.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9781451469271_1240441.jpg?v=1769301914","url":"https:\/\/koorong.com\/products\/becoming-a-christian-in-christendom-457662","provider":"Koorong","version":"1.0","type":"link"}