Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens

by Bernd Wannenwetsch, Margaret Kohl

Overview

How does Christian ethics begin? This pioneering study explores the grammar of the Christian life as it is embodied and learned in worship as the formative experience of Christian communities. In a careful analysis of biblical and traditional conceptions of worship, Wannenwetsch demonstrates how worship challenges the deepest antagonisms in political thought and social practice. Particular worship practices (confession, preaching, praising, intercession, observance of holy days) are examined and their ethical and political significance is explored.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199253876
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/12/2004
Series:	Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	418
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 5.84(h) x 1.08(d)

About the Author

Bernd Wannenwetsch is University Lecturer in Ethics in the Theology Faculty, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

I. Worship as the Beginning of Christian Ethics1. Political Worship: Overcoming the Functional Approach2. Worship as a Form of Life: The Grammar of Christian Life3. Absorptions4. Worship and Ethics: Their Traditional CorrelationII. Worship as the Critical Power of Christian Ethics: Christian Citizens in a Torn and Divided Worldi. Worship as the Praxis of Reconciliation1. The Political Dimension of the Church: Modern and Postmodern2. The Surmounting of Political Antinomies in Worshipii. Worship Identity in (Post)modern Society1. The Total Claim of Society2. The Worshipping Congregation as a True PublicIII. Worship as Formative Power in Christian Ethics1. Hearing in Community: The Political Power of the Word2. Consensus and Forgiveness3. Homiletics as Political Propadeutics4. Life out of Abundance

Editorial Reviews

"The text is carefully researched, using a wide variety of classic and contemporary sources to advance its claims. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index make it a useful reference tool for further study."—Anglican Theological Review

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