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Tending the Fire That Burns at the Center of the World

by David F White

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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Tending the Fire That Burns at the Center of the World engages the central question of Christian formation, that is, what kind of knowing is most likely to awaken and sustain Christian faith? This book seeks to reclaim aesthetics--beauty and creativity--as the church's most native theological way of knowing and being, which participates with God's own glory and creativity. This book traces the prominence of aesthetics up until the dawn of the Enlightenment, including recent theologians who reclaim aesthetics for theology and formation. The book elaborates the aims and techniques of aesthetic approaches to teaching and learning in the church. Finally, this book cautions against overly determined rationalisms and moralisms that do not retain a sense of wonder, delight, and openness in the church's teaching, liturgy, and proclamation. In this view, the church does not simply regurgitate familiar texts, political tropes, or flattened doctrines but breaks into the world as Christ's body, a parable, a song, a flash mob, interrupting business as usual, giving new expression to acts of care, repentance, forgiveness, joy, and communion, awake to the beauty of God's gifts and inviting our worship.
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  • Author

    David F White

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Wipf and Stock

  • Published

    July 2022

  • Weight

    432g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781666742572

  • ISBN-10

    1666742570

  • Eden Code

    5892599

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