A Brutal Unity
Description
To describe the Church as "united" is a factual misnomer--even at its conception centuries ago. Ephraim Radner provides a robust rethinking of the doctrine of the church in light of Christianity's often violent and at times morally suspect history. He holds in tension the strange and transcendent oneness of God with the necessarily temporal and political function of the Church, and, in so doing, shows how the goals and failures of the liberal democratic state provide revelatory experiences that greatly enhance one's understanding of the nature of Christian unity.
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Introduction
1. Religious Violence and Christian Blasphemy
Postscript: The Tears of Peter
2. Division Is Murder
Postscript: Judas the Apostle
3. The Sins of the Church
Postscript: Loving Jerusalem
4. The Conciliar Ideal
Postscript: The Way Together
5. The Limits of Consensus
Postscript: The First Council
6. The Procedural Quest for Unity and Its Obstacles
Postscript: The Prophetic Contest
7. Conscience and Its Limits
Postscript: The Crucifixion of Conscience
8. Multiple Consciences and the Rise of Solidarity
Postscript: A Figural Phenomenology of the Church
9. The Unity of Sacrifice
Conclusion
