Alive in God
A Christian Imagination
1st Edition
Published on 3. October 2019
224 pages
978-1-4729-7023-7 (ISBN)
Description
How can Christianity touch the imagination of our contemporaries when ever fewer people in the West identify as religious?
Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe argues we must show how everything we believe is an invitation to live fully. God says: 'I put before you life and death: choose life'.
Anyone who understands the beauty and messiness of human life - novelists, poets, filmmakers and so on - can be our allies, whether they believe or not. The challenge is not today's secularism but its banality.
We accompany the disciples as they struggle to understand this strange man who heals, casts out demons and offers endless forgiveness. In the face of death, he teaches them what it means to be alive in God. Then he embraces all that afflicts and crushes humanity.
Finally, Cardinal Radcliffe explores what it means for us to be alive spiritually, physically, sacramentally, justly and prayerfully. The result is a compelling new understanding of the words of Jesus: 'I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.'
Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe argues we must show how everything we believe is an invitation to live fully. God says: 'I put before you life and death: choose life'.
Anyone who understands the beauty and messiness of human life - novelists, poets, filmmakers and so on - can be our allies, whether they believe or not. The challenge is not today's secularism but its banality.
We accompany the disciples as they struggle to understand this strange man who heals, casts out demons and offers endless forgiveness. In the face of death, he teaches them what it means to be alive in God. Then he embraces all that afflicts and crushes humanity.
Finally, Cardinal Radcliffe explores what it means for us to be alive spiritually, physically, sacramentally, justly and prayerfully. The result is a compelling new understanding of the words of Jesus: 'I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.'
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-7023-7 (9781472970237)
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Person
Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe is a former Master of the Dominican Order. Educated at Oxford and Paris, he joined the Dominicans in 1965, and taught scripture at Blackfriars, Oxford, for many years. His bestselling books published by Bloomsbury include What is the Point of Being a Christian?, Why Go to Church? and I Call You Friends. He was elevated to the rank of Cardinal by Pope Francis in December 2024.
Content
IMAGINATION
1 Wingless and Three-Legged Chickens
2 Choose Life
JOURNEYING
3 The Transcendent Adventure
4 A God for Our Aches and Pains
5 Initial Skirmishes
6 Growing Up
7 Skin and Forgiveness
TEACHING
8 Teaching: The Dogmatic Imagination
9 Impossible Friendships
10 The Non-Violent Imagination
11 At Home
12 The Ecology of Faith
13 Affliction
THE RISEN LIFE
Introduction
14 The Spiritual Life: Fresh Air
15 The Bodily Life: Hallowing the Senses
16 The Sacramental versus the Technocratic Imagination
17 The Liturgical Imagination: God's Providence
18 The Life of Prayer: The Poetry of Hope
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
1 Wingless and Three-Legged Chickens
2 Choose Life
JOURNEYING
3 The Transcendent Adventure
4 A God for Our Aches and Pains
5 Initial Skirmishes
6 Growing Up
7 Skin and Forgiveness
TEACHING
8 Teaching: The Dogmatic Imagination
9 Impossible Friendships
10 The Non-Violent Imagination
11 At Home
12 The Ecology of Faith
13 Affliction
THE RISEN LIFE
Introduction
14 The Spiritual Life: Fresh Air
15 The Bodily Life: Hallowing the Senses
16 The Sacramental versus the Technocratic Imagination
17 The Liturgical Imagination: God's Providence
18 The Life of Prayer: The Poetry of Hope
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
