Loving and Hating the World (eBook)

Ambivalence and Discipleship

James Lawson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
210 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-7252-7663-5 (ISBN)

Infos

What is it that makes discipleship authentic? Discipleship involves learning how to be in the world but not of the world. The first Christians were ambivalent about "the world": God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son but friendship with the world is enmity with God. So discipleship involves learning how to live with this ambivalence and an ancient tension between loving and hating the world.
This book offers a deeper understanding of what discipleship means by tracing the history of this ambivalence from the New Testament to the present. It presents a revisionary account of this history as a continuing and nonnegotiable tension between loving and hating the world rather than a simple transition from medieval world-denial to modern world-affirmation. It argues that this tension helped produce our own secular age and it considers modern Jewish and Christian philosophical and theological responses to this history that suggest ways that Christians can negotiate this tension to be more authentic disciples today.

Autor

James Lawson is a Priest of the Church of England in London. He has been Chaplain and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Vice Principal and Director of Pastoral Studies of St Stephen’s House, Oxford.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.12.2021
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Asceticism • Christianity • Christian life and practice • Christian ministry • Christian Rituals and Practice • Christian theology • Church and the world • contemptus mundi • Discipleship • ethics • Gnosticism • James Lawson • Loving and Hating the World • Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works • Religion and Culture • Religious Ethics • Rites and ceremonies • sacramental ontology • Secularism • Secularization • Worship
• ISBN-10: 1-7252-7663-1 / 1725276631
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7252-7663-5 / 9781725276635