
What Christianity Is Not
An Exercise in Negative Theology
Douglas John Hall(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 12. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
194 pages
978-1-61097-671-8 (ISBN)
Description
What really is Christianity? If all the religious packaging in which it is wrapped were removed, what would remain? These were Bonhoeffer's questions, and they must be ours today--even more urgently! For in many quarters Christianity is being so narrowly identified with some of its parts, cultural associations, and past ambitions that like all militant religion, it represents a threat to the planetary future.
We may no longer speak clearly of the essence of Christianity, as von Harnack and other nineteenth-century thinkers did; but perhaps we may still have a sufficiently shared sense of the kerygmatic core of this faith to be able, in the face of these misrepresentations of it, to say what Christianity is not.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61097-671-8 (9781610976718)
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Douglas John Hall is emeritus Professor of Theology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Among the most widely read theologians in North America, Hall has written very popular and acclaimed works like 'Lighten Our Darkness', 'God and Human Suffering', and 'Why Christian?' as well as a full-scale trilogy in systematic theology: 'Thinking the Faith, Professing the Faith', and 'Confessing the Faith', all from Fortress Press.