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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
The Sacrificial Nature of Christian Life 13
Sacrifice and Religious Identity 15
First Christian Interpretation: Jesus Christ 36
Second Christian Interpretation: Application to the Disciple 57
The Feminist Critique of a Distorted Ideal of Sacrifice 71
A Hermeneutic Approach to Freeing the Symbol of Sacrifice 74
Critique of Atonement Theories as a Theological Justification of Victimization 81
Sources of Distortion in Sacrificial Discipleship 97
A New Context for Sin and Transcendence 109
Interpreting Selfhood through Giving to the Other 119
Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of Self-Interpretation 121
Creation of Identity via Response to Otherness 131
An Ethics of Summons 146
Sacrifice in a Creation Catechism 154
God the Creator 161
Concentrated Creation: Christology 167
Integrating Accepted Suffering into Christian Discipleship as Sacrifice 182
Creation Faith 199
Sacrifice in the Image of God 207
Retrospective Assessment of the Sources 208
A NewFoundation for Sacrifice in Creation Faith 215
Renewing the Symbol of Sacrifice 226
Study Guide 233
Notes 237
Bibliography 271
Index 283
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Troy Parker
reviewed Paradox of Christian Sacrifice: Self-Gift and Self-Love on September 29, 2016
Paradox of Christian Sacrifice: Self-Gift and Self-Love
This book is actually intended to be read one "chapter" at a time over thirty days, but I read it several "days" at a time off-and-on throughout the last three weeks. I found it while browsing at a local bookstore and picked it up for a friend, but I never give away a book without having read it first.
Basically, this book is a step-by-step analysis of the reader's own views on Christian faith made possible by systematically considering each phrase of the Apostles' Creed. After each day's reading, the authors present some ideas on how to delve more deeply into the topic of the day as well as a recommended title for reading more about the concepts that were discussed that day. Scripture references throughout the book are from The Message (MSG) paraphrase translation, of which I am a huge fan.
While the audience of the book is anticipated to be "skeptics" -- someone who is searching for answers to the "larger questions of life" or who has "given up on church but not on God", I found it to be helpful and relevant to me, as well. The sections that I found the most helpful (and over which I spent the most time contemplating) were the sections on Hell ("...he descended to hell..."), Judgment ("...From there He will come to judge the living and the dead..."), the Holy Spirit ("I believe in the Holy Spirit..."), and Christian community ("I believe in ... the communion of saints..."). I think all-to-often the (protestant/Baptist) church today over-looks many of these topics or just bluntly says "here are the facts" without bothering to discuss their importance to living the Christian life. This book does a good job of considering each of the beliefs that Christians have held most dear since the early church and what the implications of each is on our modern lives.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who:
1. is questioning the basic elements of their Christian faith, or
2. has always taken someone else's say-so on the basic elements of their faith and is ready to think about them for their self, or
3. needs a break from their stale routine faith to go back and dust-off the basics, or
4. who is wanting to take-up relevant conversation with any of the above.
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