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Christian Life (christian + life)
Selected AbstractsPracticing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630,1965 , Edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Leigh E. Schmidt, and Mark ValeriTHE HISTORIAN, Issue 2 2008Michael Pasquier No abstract is available for this article. [source] John Wesley's Doctrine of Grace in Light of the Christian TraditionINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2002Ralph Del Colle This ecumenically minded article explores Wesley's understanding of grace both in its relation to experience , inward religion , and in relation to his doctrines of justification and sanctification. Wesley's treatments of justification and sanctification are compared to those of Luther, Calvin and Trent. His unique and ecumenical blending of traditions allowed Wesley to develop a doctrine of grace which offers significant resources to contemporary understandings of Christian life and practice. [source] Choosing Life or Second Life?INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 384-385 2008Agency in A Mediated Culture, Discipleship Liberationist theologies gave rue to a re-emphasis on Christian life as being primarily historical life, and Christian spirituality as rooted in faithful and honest attention to the immediacy of historical reality. However, for many people living in media-saturated, overdeveloped societies, any distinction between actual reality and a mediated pseudo-reality is blurred. Another facet of life in a media-saturated context is that of being regularly confronted with impressions of destitution, violence and ecological degradation, whilst at the same time being further distanced from the realities represented through communications media and their ,virtualizing' tendency. This rapid change in our relation to reality has, I suggest, profound theological and missiological consequences. The ways in which electronic media have modified life, including religious life, are complex and varied. Consumption of electronic media does not seem to have replaced religion as such but it has tended to shape religious life in its own image. With particular reference to Slavoj Zizek's reading of "the Real" after "9/11", I have attempted to sketch how some of these sweeping social and cultural changes may impact on the interpretation of Christian discipleship and mission. In the end, either the Christian life is vulnerable to potentially disruptive reality, or it is at risk of collapsing into a version of the pursuit of happiness mediated by and through late-capitalist culture. [source] Command Performance: Rethinking Performance Interpretation in the Context of Divine DiscourseMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2000Shannon Craigo-Snell Nicholas Wolterstorff employs a musical metaphor to describe performance interpretation as imagining, within the specifications of a text and the guidelines of a tradition, what someone might have said by inscribing certain words. This article shifts to a theatrical metaphor, comparing Christian communities interpreting Scripture to theatre companies interpreting scripts. The author asserts that Christian interpretation of Scripture takes place in and through the embodied, communal performance of Christian life and worship. With this understanding of performance interpretation, it becomes difficult to identify Hans Frei as a performance interpreter and possible to fit Wolterstorff's authorial-discourse interpretation within a performance framework. [source] | ||||||||||