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9780802843043: The Two Cities of God: The Church's Responsibility for the Earthly City
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ISBN 10: 0802843042 ISBN 13: 9780802843043
Casa editrice: Eerdmans Pub Co, 1997

Sinossi

The chapters of this book offer informed perspectives on a "theology of the world," exploring the question How does/should the church relate to the secular world? The standard dogma of the 1960s was Let the world set the agenda! Such a perspective has often caused the American church merely to reflect, rather than to inform and lead, the society in which it lives. Surely, say the authors of this volume, it must be the other way around.

Using the biblical image of the earthly city and the heavenly city, Robert Benne, Carl E. Braaten, Robert W. Jenson, Gilbert Meilaender, Christopher R. Seitz, Anthony Ugolnik, George Weigel, and Robert L. Wilken discuss such subjects as natural law, politics, the academy, economics, and marriage. Each essay boldly asserts that the church's most faithful service in the world begins and ends with her life in the communion of the triune God. The first task of the church is to be true to her own self as the Body of Christ in the world. As such the church is a sign and agent of the heavenly city within and for the earthly city.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Carl E. Braaten is professor emeritus of systematic theology at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and former executive director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

Robert W. Jenson (1930–2017) was a leading Lutheran and ecumenical theologian. He served as codirector of the Institute for Theological Inquiry and was cofounder and longtime associate director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. Among his many significant books are A Religion against Itself, The Triune Identity, and the two-volume Systematic Theology.

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Editore
Eerdmans Pub Co
Data di pubblicazione
1997
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0802843042
ISBN 13 
9780802843043
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
132
Redattore
Braaten Carl E., Jenson Robert W.
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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