An argument for the centrality of the Eucharistic church in an increasingly tribal world.
As Western culture has secularized, the church has increasingly become marginalized and is seen as providing support and optional resources, rather than indispensable to the Christian life. In this volume, theologian Scott Cowdell argues for a recovery of the church as the proper context for Christian faith, life, and mission. In Why Church? Cowdell considers how we have arrived at this moment, examining how perceptions of the church have changed in response to increasing individualism and institutional failings. Suggesting that the Eucharistic Church embodies Christ’s desire to draw humankind to him, Cowdell shows how the Christian life depends on Christian community.
Written with adult formation in mind and from a perspective of generous orthodoxy, Why Church? makes a provocative case for the centrality of the church to Christian life. Discussion questions at the conclusion of each chapter offer provocative conversation starters for any adult education group.
"Too often the faithful sacramental Christian life has been dismissed as ‘inherited Church’. Scott Cowdell helps us to see the Church freshly, as if for the first time, and shows its central importance as the steady heartbeat of our life in God. He compares trying to embody God’s love without it as trying to surf without a surfboard. We ignore his vision at our peril." - Alison Milbank, professor of Theology and Literature at Nottingham University
"Writing with wit and wisdom Cowdell helps us recover the significance of the obvious, namely, that Christianity is unintelligible without the church. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor his account of how the church can survive and flourish in modernity is as imaginative as it is hopeful. This is a book in theology that is at once constructive and a delight to read." - Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at the Divinity School at Duke University, and author of A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic
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As Western culture has secularized, the church has increasingly become marginalized and is seen as providing support and optional resources, rather than indispensable to the Christian life. In this volume, theologian Scott Cowdell argues for a recovery of the church as the proper context for Christian faith, life, and mission. In Why Church? Cowdell considers how we have arrived at this moment, examining how perceptions of the church have changed in response to increasing individualism and institutional failings. Suggesting that the Eucharistic Church embodies Christ’s desire to draw humankind to him, Cowdell shows how the Christian life depends on Christian community.
Written with adult formation in mind and from a perspective of generous orthodoxy, Why Church? makes a provocative case for the centrality of the church to Christian life. Discussion questions at the conclusion of each chapter offer provocative conversation starters for any adult education group.
"Too often the faithful sacramental Christian life has been dismissed as ‘inherited Church’. Scott Cowdell helps us to see the Church freshly, as if for the first time, and shows its central importance as the steady heartbeat of our life in God. He compares trying to embody God’s love without it as trying to surf without a surfboard. We ignore his vision at our peril." - Alison Milbank, professor of Theology and Literature at Nottingham University
"Writing with wit and wisdom Cowdell helps us recover the significance of the obvious, namely, that Christianity is unintelligible without the church. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor his account of how the church can survive and flourish in modernity is as imaginative as it is hopeful. This is a book in theology that is at once constructive and a delight to read." - Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at the Divinity School at Duke University, and author of A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic
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