Secret faith in the public square
Subtitle: an argument for the concealment of Christian identity
By: Jonathan Malesic.
Publisher: Brazos
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587432262
Subjects: Identification (Religion); Christian life -- United States; Identification (Religion) -- History of doctrines; Secrecy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines; United States -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Secrecy and Christian faith in contemporary America; title: Promoting secrecy in a Christian empire : Cyril of Jerusalem's discipline of the secret; title: Liturgical secrecy as Cyril's defense against opportunism and imperial authority; title: The secret of faith in Kierkegaard's Works of love; title: How Kierkegaard's secret agape subverts bourgeois culture; title: Bonhoeffer's Arkandisziplin : Christian confession in a world come of age; title: The limits of Arkandisziplin and of the secular; title: The secret-keeping self and Christian responsibility for the other; title: The church as a community of hidden disciples; title: Secret faith's fulfillment of the church's mission in America : an engagement with Hauerwas; title: The challenge of ambiguous religious identity in Wise blood and The moviegoer.