Confessing the Faith
Christian Theology in a North American Context
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Confessing the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context
This bold work culminates Hall's three-volume contextual theology, the first to take the measure of Christian belief and doctrine explicitly in light of North American cultural and historical experience.
Hall is deeply critical of North American culture but also of sidelined Christian churches that struggle to gain dominance within it. "We must stop thinking of the reduction of Christendom as a tragedy!" he says. The disestablishment that the churches reluctantly enjoy can enable them to develop genuine community, uncompromised theology, and honest engagement with the larger culture. To a failed culture and a struggling church Hall shows the radical implications of a theology of the cross for the shape and practice of church, preaching, ministry, ethics, and eschatology.
Hall's frank and prophetic volume is the trilogy's most practical, and the most sustained probe to date of Christian life in a post-Christian context.
Hall is deeply critical of North American culture but also of sidelined Christian churches that struggle to gain dominance within it. "We must stop thinking of the reduction of Christendom as a tragedy!" he says. The disestablishment that the churches reluctantly enjoy can enable them to develop genuine community, uncompromised theology, and honest engagement with the larger culture. To a failed culture and a struggling church Hall shows the radical implications of a theology of the cross for the shape and practice of church, preaching, ministry, ethics, and eschatology.
Hall's frank and prophetic volume is the trilogy's most practical, and the most sustained probe to date of Christian life in a post-Christian context.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800631345
- Dimensions 6 x 9
- Pages 534
- Publication Date March 23, 1998
Endorsements
"A radical redoing of theology as it grows out of our North American context. . . . The benchmark for future North American theology."
--Robert McAfee Brown
"May well be the most comprehensive and profound work of systematic theology produced in North America in our lifetime."
--John C. Bennett
--Robert McAfee Brown
"May well be the most comprehensive and profound work of systematic theology produced in North America in our lifetime."
--John C. Bennett
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction to Volume Three: Confessing the Faith
1. "Theology Matters"
2. What Does It Mean to "Confess" the Faith?
3. The Plan of This Volume
Part I: The Church
Chapter One: The Confessing Church
1. Confession as the Church's Mode of World-Commitment
2. Christological Foundations of the Confessing Church
Chapter Two: Contours of the Church
3. The True Church: Parameters of the Discussion
4. The Marks of the Church
5. The Church and the Churches
6. The Body and Its Members
7. Church, Society, and State
8. The Church and the Faith of Others
Chapter Three: Mission, Message, and Ministry
9. What Is "the Christian Mission"?
10. The World-Orientation of the Christian Mission
11. The Mission as "Message"
12. Ministry: The Empowerment of Mission
Part II: Metamorphosis:
From Christendom to Diaspora
Chapter Four: Disestablishment and the Crisis of Mainline Protestantism
13 The Changed and Changing Status of the Christian Movement
14. Change and Response to Change: An Overview
15. Establishment and Disestablishment in North America
16. "The Task of Disestablishment"
17. On Being a Diaspora in a "Christian" Context
Chapter Five: Christian Life in a Post-Christian Context
18. Sojourners
19. Resources for the Journey
20. The Covenantal Basis of the Disciple Community
21. The Doctrine of Election
22. The Ethic of Resistance and the Ethic of Responsibility
Part III: The Forms of Faith's Confession
Chapter Six: Christian Confession as Word, Deed, and Stance
Introduction to Volume Three: Confessing the Faith
1. "Theology Matters"
2. What Does It Mean to "Confess" the Faith?
3. The Plan of This Volume
Part I: The Church
Chapter One: The Confessing Church
1. Confession as the Church's Mode of World-Commitment
2. Christological Foundations of the Confessing Church
Chapter Two: Contours of the Church
3. The True Church: Parameters of the Discussion
4. The Marks of the Church
5. The Church and the Churches
6. The Body and Its Members
7. Church, Society, and State
8. The Church and the Faith of Others
Chapter Three: Mission, Message, and Ministry
9. What Is "the Christian Mission"?
10. The World-Orientation of the Christian Mission
11. The Mission as "Message"
12. Ministry: The Empowerment of Mission
Part II: Metamorphosis:
From Christendom to Diaspora
Chapter Four: Disestablishment and the Crisis of Mainline Protestantism
13 The Changed and Changing Status of the Christian Movement
14. Change and Response to Change: An Overview
15. Establishment and Disestablishment in North America
16. "The Task of Disestablishment"
17. On Being a Diaspora in a "Christian" Context
Chapter Five: Christian Life in a Post-Christian Context
18. Sojourners
19. Resources for the Journey
20. The Covenantal Basis of the Disciple Community
21. The Doctrine of Election
22. The Ethic of Resistance and the Ethic of Responsibility
Part III: The Forms of Faith's Confession
Chapter Six: Christian Confession as Word, Deed, and Stance