02681oam 22004574a 450 991015017980332120170922081347.01-5064-1895-3(CKB)3710000000939345(MiAaPQ)EBC4733174(OCoLC)962819421(MdBmJHUP)muse54490(EXLCZ)99371000000093934520161104e20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBecoming a Christian in Christendom Radical Discipleship and the Way of the Cross in America's "Christian" Culture /Jason A. MahnMinneapolis, Minnesota :Fortress Press,2016.©20161 online resource (397 pages)1-4514-6927-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction : life in a "Christian" culture -- part I. Problems -- 1. Christendom, then and now -- 2. Unpacking Christian privilege -- part II. Resources -- 3. Purveyors of comfort and Kierkegaard's call to discipleship -- 4. Upstanding patriotic citizens and Bonhoeffer's faithful resistance -- 5. Church as chaplain and contemporary critics of Constantine -- part III. Contours -- 6. Economy : free grace in a culture of cheap -- 7. Politics : getting radical and staying ordinary -- 8. War : subversions of the cross -- 9. Religion : guests in the House of Israel -- part IV. Re-formation -- 10. Conclusion : becoming (a) Christian in Christendom.How might one live the Christian faith within a culture that idealizes and privileges Christianity while also relativizing it and making it redundant? Arguing for a reconceptualization of the theology of the cross and radical communal practices, the author explores some pervasive dangers of America's new Christendom and provocatively imagines alternatives to conventional Christianity--ones whereby the church embodies an alternative politic, where it commits to cruciform non-violence, appreciates gifts by giving them away, and knows its boundaries well enough to learn from those on the other side.Christian lifeUnited States21st centuryChristianityUnited States21st centuryUnited StatesfastElectronic books. Christian lifeChristianity277.3083Mahn Jason A.1973-1268515MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910150179803321Becoming a Christian in Christendom2983837UNINA