Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World
Lessons for the Church from Macintyre's "After Virtue"
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 1998
96 pages
978-0-567-34806-7 (ISBN)
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This book describes several aspects of contemporary culture that create both opportunities and threats to Christian mission. It offers insights and practices that the church today must embrace in order to live faithfully and witness effectively to the gospel.
Following a presentation of the church's history in relation to Western culture, several chapters draw upon specific suggestions in Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue--that we live in a fragmented rather than a pluralistic world; how the church has compromised its faithfulness by accommodating the mainstream of morality; implications stemming from the collapse of "the Enlightenment project"; and the need for a "new monasticism" together with forms the life of the church must take to sustain a faithful witness in contemporary culture.
Jonathan R. Wilson is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, and the author of Theology as Cultural Critique.
Following a presentation of the church's history in relation to Western culture, several chapters draw upon specific suggestions in Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue--that we live in a fragmented rather than a pluralistic world; how the church has compromised its faithfulness by accommodating the mainstream of morality; implications stemming from the collapse of "the Enlightenment project"; and the need for a "new monasticism" together with forms the life of the church must take to sustain a faithful witness in contemporary culture.
Jonathan R. Wilson is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, and the author of Theology as Cultural Critique.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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978-0-567-34806-7 (9780567348067)
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Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World
Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's "After Virtue"
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Jonathan R. Wilson is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE SERIES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. LIVING WITH OUR HISTORY
- History-as-Argument
- The Church's History in Western Culture
- The First Lesson
- 2. FRAGMENTED WORLDS
- Pluralism Is Not the Problem
- Living Among Fragments
- The Second Lesson
- 3. THE FAILURE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT
- The Culture's Enlightenment Project
- The Church's Enlightenment Project
- Consequences of the Failure of the Enlightenment Project
- The Third Lesson
- 4. RECOVERING TRADITION
- The Aristotelian Story
- A Revision of Maclntyre
- The Good Life
- The Living Tradition
- Practices
- Virtues
- Community
- The Fourth Lesson
- 5. THE NEW MONASTICISM
- Why a New Monasticism?
- Outline of a New Monasticism
- Unanswered Questions
- The Fifth Lesson
- NOTES
- REFERENCES CITED
