Self and Salvation: Being Transformed

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-03-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This eagerly awaited book by David F. Ford makes a unique and important contribution to the debate about the Christian doctrine of salvation. Using the pivotal image of the face, Professor Ford offers a constructive and contemporary account of the self being transformed. He engages with three modern thinkers (Levinas, Jüngel and Ricoeur) in order to rethink and reimagine the meaning of self. Developing the concept of a worshipping self, he explores the dimensions of salvation through the lenses of scripture, worship practices, the life, death and resurrection of Christ, and the lives of contemporary saints. He uses different genres and traditions to show how the self flourishes through engagement with God, other people, and the responsibilities and joys of ordinary living. The result is a habitable theology of salvation immersed in Christian faith, thought and practice while also being deeply involved with modern life in a pluralist world.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
x(1)
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1(16)
I Dialogues: Levinas, Jungel, Ricoeur 17(90)
1 Facing
17(13)
2 Enjoyment, responsibility and desire: a hospitable self
30(15)
3 God, others and substitution: a self without idols
45(28)
4 Language, love and testimony: a worshipping self
73(34)
II Flourishings 107(174)
5 Communicating God's abundance: a singing self
107(30)
6 `Do this': a eucharistic self
137(30)
7 Facing Jesus Christ
167(24)
8 The face on the cross and the worship of God
191(25)
9 Love as vocation: Therese of Lisieux
216(25)
10 Polyphonic living: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
241(25)
11 Feasting
266(15)
Bibliography 281(6)
Index of scriptural references 287(4)
Index 291

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