Discipleship and Imagination

Christian Tradition and Truth
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-927590-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

How have the arrangement of biblical narratives over the centuries had an impact on the understanding and practice of discipleship?

David Brown's Tradition and Imagination was described on its publication as 'an achievement unmatched by any British theologian for a long time' (Maurice Wiles). In this controversial sequel Professor Brown tackles questions about the presentation of biblical narratives over the centuries, and asks whether it has had an impact on our understanding of discipleship. He explores presentations of Job, the biblical Marys, heaven, and the saints to argue that the Church went beyond purely scriptural ideas to keep the life of Christ continually relevant to a changing society. This book includes new attitudes to suffering and sexual equality, and concludes with arguments for a new way of understanding Bible and Tradition. Professor Brown shows in his consistently open and sensitive way that not only does conflict exercise a creative role in the search for truth, but that the most important type of truth, far from being narrowly historical, is in fact imaginative.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of religion and theology, especially Christian theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, David

Brown, D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- One: Appropriating Christ for the Present

- 1: Valuing and Prostituting Women: Equality and Mary Magdalene

- 2: Pattern and Particular: Saint and Novel

- 3: Heaven and the Defeat of the Beast: Social Aspects of Discipleship

- Two: The Impact of Changing Experience

- 4: Job and Innocent Suffering

- 5: Mary and Virgin Promise

- Three: Truth and Authority

- 6: Apostolicity and Conflict: Peter and Paul

- 7: Posing Pilate's Question: Truth and Fiction

Über Autor(innen)

David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity in the University of Durham.