Bernd Wannenwetsch

Political Worship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Wannenwetsch shows how worship challenges the deepest antagonisms in political thought and social practice through careful analysis of biblical and traditional conceptions of worship. Particular worship practices (confession, preaching, praising, intercession, observance of holy days) are examined for their ethical and political significance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780199568123
• ISBN-10: 019956812X
• Artikelnr.: 27347859

Inhaltsangabe

I. Worship as the Beginning of Christian Ethics
1: Political Worship: Overcoming the Functional Approach
2: Worship as a Form of Life: The Grammar of Christian Life
3: Absorptions
4: Worship and Ethics: Their Traditional Correlation
II. Worship as the Critical Power of Christian Ethics: Christian Citizens in a Torn and Divided World
i. Worship as the Praxis of Reconciliation
1: The Political Dimension of the Church: Modern and Postmodern
2: The Surmounting of Political Antinomies in Worship
ii. Worship Identity in (Post)modern Society
1: The Total Claim of Society
2: The Worshipping Congregation as a True Public
III. Worship as Formative Power in Christian Ethics
1: Hearing in Community: The Political Power of the Word
2: Consensus and Forgiveness
3: Homiletics as Political Propadeutics
4: Life out of Abundance