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We live in the midst of a crisis of home. It is evident in the massive uprooting and migration of millions across the globe, in the anxious nationalism awaiting immigrants in their destinations, in the unhoused populations in wealthy cities, in the fractured households of families, and in the worldwide destruction of habitats and international struggles for dominance. It is evident, perhaps more quietly but just as truly, in the aching sense that there is nowhere we truly belong.In this moment, the Christian faith has been disappointingly inept in its response. We need a better witness to the God who created, loves, and reconciles this world, who comes to dwell among us.This book tells the "story of everything" in which God creates the world as the home for humans and for God in communion with God's creatures. The authors render the story of creation, redemption, and consummation through the lens of God's homemaking work and show the theological fruit of telling the story this way. The result is a vision that can inspire creative Christian living in our various homes today in faithfulness to God's ongoing work.

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Philosophie et théologie

Christianity

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	27 septembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493437122
Langue	English
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“ The Home of God is a powerful intervention into the troubled ways we think about life in places and spaces—national, civic, and ecclesial. Like two highly skilled physicians, Volf and McAnnally-Linz diagnose our sickness and offer a compelling theological vision for how to think about and create home. At heart, this is a beautiful theological reflection on the significance of home that steers away from both the idolatry and the apathy that afflict so much thinking about home. I doubt this book will ever go out of print.”
— Willie James Jennings , Yale University
“Most modern Christians imagine that the gospel is about God rescuing ‘souls’ from this world to go and live with him somewhere else. The Bible, however, insists that God wants to come and make his home with us—and that he has launched this project through Jesus and the Spirit. The present book, a shining example of systematic theologians actually reading the Bible instead of plundering it for texts to redeploy within other narratives, argues its case through detailed, suggestive exegesis of three central biblical texts (Exodus, John, and Revelation). The result is a vision that is neither Augustine’s spiritualized focus on God alone nor Hegel’s dangerous elision of God and the world but a rich vision of rescued and restored human beings living with joyful purpose within a gloriously renewed creation. A remarkable book!”
— N. T. Wright , former Bishop of Durham; University of St. Andrews; Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
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Jesus Christ is God come to dwell among humans, to be, to speak, and to act “for the life of the world” (John 6:51). Taking its mandate from the character and mission of God, Christian theology’s task is to discern, articulate, and commend visions of flourishing life in light of God’s self-revelation in Jesus Christ. The Theology for the Life of the World series features texts that do just that.
Human life is diverse and multifaceted, and so will be the books in this series. Some will focus on one specific aspect of life. Others will elaborate expansive visions of human persons, social life, or the world in relation to God. All will share the conviction that theology is vital to exploring the character of true life in diverse settings and orienting us toward it. No task is greater than for each of us and all of us together to discern and pursue the flourishing of all in God’s creation. These books are meant as a contribution to that task.
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© 2022 by Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Published by Brazos Press
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ISBN 978-1-4934-3712-2
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Dedication
To Phil and Patty Love, faithful friends and consummate hosts
Contents
Cover
Endorsements i
Half Title Page iii
Series Page iv
Title Page v
Copyright Page vi
Dedication vii
Abbreviations xi
Prelude: The Arrows of Our Longing 1
Overture: A Story of Home 4
Part 1: Exodus 29
1. Out of the House of Bondage 31
2. Life in God’s Household 51
Part 2: The Word of Life 71
3. God Coming Home 73
4. Life and Light 99
Part 3: The Spirit of Life 125
5. Coming Home 127
6. Life in the Household 146
Part 4: The Fullness of Life 169
7. The Transition 171
8. Babylon 194
9. The New Jerusalem 205
Postlude: The Choice 229
Acknowledgments 236
Bibliography 238
Index 254
Cover Flaps 258
Back Cover 259
Abbreviations CD Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics . Edited by Geoffrey W. Bromiley and Thomas F. Torrance. 14 vols. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1936–70. LW Luther’s Works . American Edition. Edited by Jaroslav Pelikan (vols. 1–30) and Helmut T. Lehmann (vols. 31–55). St. Louis and Philadelphia: Concordia and Fortress, 1955–86. SCG Summa contra Gentiles . Translated by James F. Anderson, Vernon J. Bourke, and Anton C. Pegis, F.R.S.C. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975. ST Summa Theologica . Translated by Fathers of the Dominican Province. 5 vols. Notre Dame, IN: Christian Classics, 1981. WSA The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century. Hyde Park, NY: New City, 1991–.
Prelude
The Arrows of Our Longing
No keen observation is required to see that something is amiss in the world. More than something—many things. That much is obvious. So obvious, in fact, that it’s all too easy to find oneself thinking that things are especially, uniquely awry. That they have never been worse. Narratives of crisis and decline do offer their own sickly sort of comfort, but pseudo-romantic nostalgia is a Siren’s song. Many things have always been amiss, and we gain nothing from a quantitative accounting of the degrees of amiss-ness at various times and places. In an important sense, everything is awry and has been awry, the primordial and indestructible goodness of the creation notwithstanding. There is an abiding out-of-jointness to things, witnessed (but not exhausted) by the abiding disquietude of human hearts. The pressing need isn’t that we accurately divine an overall trend line in the course of history but that we carefully discern how things are in fact awry—the texture of our dislocation—here and now.
Beneath or alongside or mingled with the disquietude, perhaps you have felt an amorphous but insistent longing—a yearning for truer modes of belonging, for fulsome forms of resonance that do not depend for their depth or intensity on the thrill of novelty, fascination with the forbidden, or the gravity of violence. In a word, a longing for home .
Much of the awryness of our sociocultural contexts thwarts this longing for home—or twists it toward exclusionary visions of home, most virulently exemplified in nationalist and identitarian cultural and political projects. Technological change outpaces our ability to observe, much less understand, its effects. The planet, the only home we earthlings have, convulses from the wounds of decades of unrestrained industrial production and often-avaricious economic growth. Everything from zoning regulations and highway maps to polarized political systems conspires to create alienation, “distance where there should be none.” 1 Increasingly, it’s sinking in just how many of our homes were built—are still being built —on places and histories of violence and injustice.
The sense arises, quite naturally and probably quite rightly , that our current ways of life not only are inadequate to the challenges before us but also actively hinder us from addressing them—that they themselves tend to pull us yet further astray. When it doesn’t lead to despair, this realization might provoke the resigned, ironic smile of someone stuck in a pit and possessed of no tool but a shovel. How can we trust not only our institutions but our intuitions and our longings when they have brought us here and when they have been formed in the image of here ?
When Friedrich Nietzsche’s prophet Zarathustra, “the Godless,” first preaches to a village of comfortable, self-satisfied stand-ins for Nietzsche’s modern bourgeois contemporaries, he cries out in warning, “Beware! The time approaches when human beings will no longer launch the arrow of their longing beyond the human, and the string of their bow will have forgotten how to whir!” 2 Few of us today are as satisfied as Nietzsche’s “last human beings,” who imagine they “invented happiness.” And some of us do purport to aim for something “beyond the human.” Many, however, have lost touch with any desire that stretches beyond the present form of the world, to borrow a phrase from Paul (1 Cor. 7:31). The most striking feature even of transhumanist fantasies is just how unimaginative and pedestrian they are. The disquietude of our here and now—its political challenges and ecological crises, its peculiar sorrows and existential unease—asks something more of us: a broader and less restrained imagination. It calls us to string our bows and together cast the arrows of our longing beyond the present form of the world. But cast them where? Toward what?
From Marx and Nietzsche on, many critics have decried Christian faith for being a poisonous dream, misdirecting our longing from our home in this world to an eternal, ghostly one. The main thesis of this book is that Christian faith actually offer