Vulnerability and glory : a theological account /
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| Author / Creator: | Culp, Kristine A. (Kristine Ann), 1957- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2010. |
| Description: | ix, 236 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8286098 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Vulnerable to Devastation and Transformation
- Vulnerability
- Life before God
- Overview
- Part 1. Vulnerability and Community
- Chapter 1. From Paul's Earthen Vessel to Augustine's Mixed Body
- Paul: Vulnerable Vessels, Glorious Treasure
- Irenaeus: Reliability and Renewal
- Second and Third Centuries: "The Pivot of Salvation"
- The Problem of Ambiguity within Churches
- Cyprian's Spiritual-Structural Unity
- Changing Circumstances
- The Visible and Invisible Church in Augustine
- Dynamic Complexity or Stability and Mastery?
- Chapter 2. Assembled under the Cross: Martin Luther's Christendom
- The Sign of the Cross
- Captivity
- The Treasure of the Gospel
- The Creative Power of the Word
- Paradox: The Visible and the Hidden Church
- Multiple Strategies
- Chapter 3. Calvin on Corruption and Transformation
- "How God's Glory May Be Kept Safe on Earth"
- Idolatry and Corruption
- Divine Accommodation
- Advancing toward Holiness
- The Face of the Church Becomes Visible
- Outward Marks
- Patterning the Christian Life
- Vulnerability, Ambiguity, and Transformation
- Chapter 4. Modern Treasure?
- An Inadequate Approach: The Antithesis of Visible and Invisible Church
- Brunner's Communicating Communion
- Gustafson's Treasure in Earthen Vessels
- Ruether, Reformation, and Redemption
- Beyond Strategies of Invulnerability
- Part 2. Transformation and Devastation
- Chapter 5. A Field of Tensions and Conversions
- Calling and Sending
- "Whoever Welcomesà "
- Situated in the Midst of Life
- Turned toward the Glory of God
- Christianity as Converting Movement
- Chapter 6. Vulnerability in a World Marked by Suffering
- A World Marked by Suffering
- Reengaging the Sign of the Cross
- Going through Suffering
- Calvin on Bearing the Cross
- Alternative Pedagogies?
- Ways of Living before God
- Part 3. Living before God
- Chapter 7. Always Reforming, Always Resisting
- Marie Durand: "Résister" as Testimony
- A Call to Resist Idolatry
- A Call to Resist the Denial of Human Dignity and the Degradation of Life
- A Call to Critique Theology's Own Idolatries
- Struggle and a Via Negativa
- Always Reforming, Always Resisting
- Chapter 8. An Itinerary of Delight and Gratitude
- Dissatisfaction
- Walking in Faith
- Reorientation
- Delight in God and in Life
- A Corporate Via Affirmativa
- Notes
- Index