What Do Christians Believe?: Belonging and Belief in Modern Christianity
A lucid summary and interpretation of the Christian faith from “one of the leading Christian poets of our time” (Jeremy Begbie, Duke University).
 
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.”—Jesus Christ

Christianity began as a minor sect within Judaism and has become one of the major world religions. What started as a small group of people who shared the same language, lifestyle and background is now a movement which embraces many different languages and cultures, giving rise to an astonishing variety of practices and interpretations—yet all with a common basis of shared faith inspired by the teaching, life, death and new life of a carpenter from Nazareth. How did this happen? 

What Do Christians Believe? was written for the reader looking for quick practical insights into the beliefs and practices of Christianity. Jesus himself identified love as the essential element in both worship and daily life. Using this teaching, and the core Christian belief that Jesus was God’s way of opening himself to humanity, theologian, poet, and songwriter Malcolm Guite explains the inner meaning of such key Christian teachings as atonement, redemption and the concept of God as Trinity.
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What Do Christians Believe?: Belonging and Belief in Modern Christianity
A lucid summary and interpretation of the Christian faith from “one of the leading Christian poets of our time” (Jeremy Begbie, Duke University).
 
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.”—Jesus Christ

Christianity began as a minor sect within Judaism and has become one of the major world religions. What started as a small group of people who shared the same language, lifestyle and background is now a movement which embraces many different languages and cultures, giving rise to an astonishing variety of practices and interpretations—yet all with a common basis of shared faith inspired by the teaching, life, death and new life of a carpenter from Nazareth. How did this happen? 

What Do Christians Believe? was written for the reader looking for quick practical insights into the beliefs and practices of Christianity. Jesus himself identified love as the essential element in both worship and daily life. Using this teaching, and the core Christian belief that Jesus was God’s way of opening himself to humanity, theologian, poet, and songwriter Malcolm Guite explains the inner meaning of such key Christian teachings as atonement, redemption and the concept of God as Trinity.
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What Do Christians Believe?: Belonging and Belief in Modern Christianity

What Do Christians Believe?: Belonging and Belief in Modern Christianity

by Malcolm Guite
What Do Christians Believe?: Belonging and Belief in Modern Christianity

What Do Christians Believe?: Belonging and Belief in Modern Christianity

by Malcolm Guite

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A lucid summary and interpretation of the Christian faith from “one of the leading Christian poets of our time” (Jeremy Begbie, Duke University).
 
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.”—Jesus Christ

Christianity began as a minor sect within Judaism and has become one of the major world religions. What started as a small group of people who shared the same language, lifestyle and background is now a movement which embraces many different languages and cultures, giving rise to an astonishing variety of practices and interpretations—yet all with a common basis of shared faith inspired by the teaching, life, death and new life of a carpenter from Nazareth. How did this happen? 

What Do Christians Believe? was written for the reader looking for quick practical insights into the beliefs and practices of Christianity. Jesus himself identified love as the essential element in both worship and daily life. Using this teaching, and the core Christian belief that Jesus was God’s way of opening himself to humanity, theologian, poet, and songwriter Malcolm Guite explains the inner meaning of such key Christian teachings as atonement, redemption and the concept of God as Trinity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781847089410
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication date: 03/31/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 659 KB

About the Author

Malcolm Guite is the chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Cambridge Federation of Theological Colleges. He lives near Cambridge with his wife and two children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     ix
Chronology     xi
What is a Christian?     1
Belonging, believing and behaving
Love as the key
Where are the Christians?     7
Mapping the message
The story of Jesus     13
History and mystery
Who did Jesus claim to be?
The followers of Jesus     44
Saint Paul
The emperor Constantine
Counter-culture and reformation
The teachings of Jesus     56
The Jewish inheritance
Sin and salvation
The Lord's Prayer
The parables of Jesus
Love and the last things
The Holy Trinity, a community of Love
What do Christians do?     78
Prayer
Sacrament
Almsgiving
Varieties of Christian experience
Christianity in the world     84
Politics and peace
Dealing with differences
Christianity and other world faiths and ideologies
Christianity and new ethical issues
What's love got to do with it?
Christianity in the twenty-first century     104
Fundamentals or fundamentalism?
Where to next?
Faith, hope and love
Further reading     110
Web resources     112
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