Church for the World - A Theology of Public Witness

Drawing on the work of German pastor-theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jennifer McBride constructs a new theology of public witness for American Protestant church communities based on the public expression of repentance and redemption.

List of contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments


• Part I: Public Witness in a Pluralistic Society


• Chapter One - Introduction: Confession and Repentance as Public Witness


• Chapter Two - Evaluating Public Witness in the United States


• Part II: A Theology of Public Witness Based on Bonhoeffer's Thought


• Chapter Three - Christ's Public Presence: The Foundation and Form for Ecclesial Witness


• Chapter Four - Belonging: Participation in the World's Christological Pattern


• Chapter Five - The Church's Public Presence: Visibility through Confession and Repentance


• Part III: Contours of a Repenting Church


• Chapter Six - The Eleuthero Community: Confession and Repentance through Unlearning and Learning Anew


• Chapter Seven: The Southeast White House: A Local Presence in a Neglected Neighborhood


• Conclusion: Concrete Implications of an Ecclesial Witness Based on Repentance


• Notes


• Selected Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Jennifer M. McBride is Board of Regents Chair in Ethics and Assistant Professor of Religion at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. She received her doctorate in philosophical theology from the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Religious Practices and Practical Theology at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. McBride serves on the Board of Directors of the International Bonhoeffer Society, English Language Section and is co-editor of Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought.

Summary

Drawing on the work of German pastor-theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jennifer McBride constructs a new theology of public witness for American Protestant church communities based on the public expression of repentance and redemption.

Additional text

This refreshing study of Christian activism appeals to Bonhoeffer's deeply Luteheran Christology and transcends the usual stereotypes of evangelicals as right-wingers and mainliners as left-wingers...this books merits attention, not only as a Bonhoeffer study but also as the witness of the social consciousness of McBride herself, a young evangelical.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer McBride, Jennifer (Visiting Lecturer Mcbride, McBride Jennifer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2014
• EAN: 9780199367948
• ISBN: 978-0-19-936794-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian social thought & activity, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches