Secret faith in the public square : an argument for the concealment of Christian identity /
Malesic, Jonathan, 1975-
Secret faith in the public square : an argument for the concealment of Christian identity / Jonathan Malesic. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, c2009. - 248 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Secrecy and Christian faith in contemporary America -- Promoting secrecy in a Christian empire : Cyril of Jerusalem's discipline of the secret -- Liturgical secrecy as Cyril's defense against opportunism and imperial authority -- The secret of faith in Kierkegaard's Works of love -- How Kierkegaard's secret agape subverts bourgeois culture -- Bonhoeffer's Arkandisziplin : Christian confession in a world come of age -- The limits of Arkandisziplin and of the secular -- The secret-keeping self and Christian responsibility for the other -- The church as a community of hidden disciples -- Secret faith's fulfillment of the church's mission in America : an engagement with Hauerwas -- Epilogue: The challenge of ambiguous religious identity in Wise blood and The moviegoer.
9781587432262 (paperback)
2009013061
Identification (Religion)
Christian life--United States.
Identification (Religion)--History of doctrines.
Secrecy--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
United States--Religious life and customs.
BV4509.5 / .M2563 2009
248.40973
Secret faith in the public square : an argument for the concealment of Christian identity / Jonathan Malesic. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, c2009. - 248 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Secrecy and Christian faith in contemporary America -- Promoting secrecy in a Christian empire : Cyril of Jerusalem's discipline of the secret -- Liturgical secrecy as Cyril's defense against opportunism and imperial authority -- The secret of faith in Kierkegaard's Works of love -- How Kierkegaard's secret agape subverts bourgeois culture -- Bonhoeffer's Arkandisziplin : Christian confession in a world come of age -- The limits of Arkandisziplin and of the secular -- The secret-keeping self and Christian responsibility for the other -- The church as a community of hidden disciples -- Secret faith's fulfillment of the church's mission in America : an engagement with Hauerwas -- Epilogue: The challenge of ambiguous religious identity in Wise blood and The moviegoer.
9781587432262 (paperback)
2009013061
Identification (Religion)
Christian life--United States.
Identification (Religion)--History of doctrines.
Secrecy--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.
United States--Religious life and customs.
BV4509.5 / .M2563 2009
248.40973