To describe the Church as ‘united’ is a factual misnomer–even at its conception centuries ago. Ephraim Radner provides a robust rethinking of the doctrine of the church in light of Christianity’s often violent and at times morally suspect history. He holds in tension the strange and transcendent oneness of God with the necessarily temporal and political function of the Church, and, in so doing, shows how the goals and failures of the liberal democratic state provide revelatory e...
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Introduction
1. Religious Violence and Christian Blasphemy
Postscript: The Tears of Peter
2. Division Is Murder
Postscript: Judas the Apostle
3. The Sins o...
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Ephraim Radner is Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. He is the author or editor of seven books, including The Fate of ...