To See History Doxologically

Download or read book To See History Doxologically written by J. Alexander Sider and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the minds of many Christians today, the church is not holy; it is difficult. Yet J. Alexander Sider argues that it is precisely when the church acknowledges its many faults and frailties when it patiently confronts its own capacity to betray the gospel that its true holiness is made manifest. In To See History Doxologically Sider probingly examines John Howard Yoder s eschatology and ecclesiology in conversation with Oliver O Donovan, Ernst Troeltsch, Miroslav Volf, and others. Sider shows how Yoder s thought redefines the church s holiness not as something earned or possessed by its own virtue but as the ceaseless and ever-new gift of God throughout all time.