Who Is a True Christian? - Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture

Part intellectual history and part nuanced argument for change, this book explores how and why the question of what defines Christianity has become so vexing over the past century, and how believers could think differently about it in the future.

List of contents

Introduction: The Rule of Faith in an Age of Anxiety; 1. Modernizing the Rule: The Quest for the Essence of Christianity; 2. Recovering the Rule: The Retrieval of 'Historic Christianity'; 3. Inhabiting the Rule: How Christianity Became a Culture; 4. Weaponizing the Rule: Making Christianity (and America) Great Again; 5. Rewriting the Rule: Christianity without Orthodoxy; Conclusion: The Many Rules of Christianity.

About the author

David W. Congdon is a Senior Editor at the University Press of Kansas, where he acquires new titles in political science, and an Instructor at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is the author of three books, including The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann's Dialectical Theology (2015, which won the Rudolf Bultmann Prize in Hermeneutics from the Philipps University of Marburg), and the editor of Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views (2023).

Summary

Part intellectual history and part nuanced argument for change, this book explores how and why the question of what defines Christianity has become so vexing over the past century, and how believers could think differently about it in the future.

Product details

• Authors: David W. Congdon, David W. (University Press of Kansas) Congdon, Congdon David W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009428996
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942899-6
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Religion & politics, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Philosophy of religion, Religion and Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Religious & theocratic ideologies