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The People of the Truth
Robert E. Webber
Rodney Clapp
其他書名
The Power of the Worshipping Community in the Modern World
出版
Wipf and Stock Publishers
, 2001-02-06
主題
Religion / Christian Church / General
Religion / Christianity / Denominations
Religion / Christian Theology / General
ISBN
1579105602
9781579105600
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=T5NKAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In this provocateive book, a prominent theologian and a leading Christian editor speak to all Christians who have grown mistrustful of the church's involvement in "religio-political power-plays" and are seeking the way home. Robert E. Webber and Rodney Clapp examine the dilemma so many Christians face--what to do if you are an enthusiast for neither the New Right nor the Old Left but still take seriously the church's social and political responsibility. 'People of the Truth' offers a biblical solution to this perplexing question.
The authors show how American Christians have come to depend on the nation, rather than the church, as their primary instrument of social change and communal influence. They call for the church to move beyond the "dead end" of civil religion to affirm the authentic role of the worshiping community in effecting social change. "The church should dare to lay down its life," the authors write, "to give up its ill-begotten political leverage; to turn aside from success and stop counting heads (or dollars); to stand at the side of forgotten poor and oppressed; to be a sign and a witness of humanity's insufficiency and God's all-sufficiency."
Drawing upon the works of many esteemed theologians and historians, the authors trace the growth of Christianity and offer a fresh apporach to the history of the church in the world. They reveal how the church's "identity and vision" have become confused, how they can be recovered, and how Christians--by living out their "distinctive story" as a worshiping community--can heal society's ills.
'People of the Truth' provides concrete examples of how the church, by realigning itself with its Christ-centered mandate, can effectively respond to such urgent problems as poverty, drug abuse, violence, pornography, AIDS, and the ever-present threat of nuclear war. Here is at once a summons and a guide for the church to become in fact what it has always been ideally: "the only people charged with proclaiming this Christ . . . a people of the truth."
