What does it mean to pursue safety in the Christian life?
Safety is among the most important concerns of human life: we pursue it instinctively and go to great lengths to avoid danger or harm. However, the category of safety has received surprisingly little focused theological reflection. Important questions for the church have gone unanswered: How do secular understandings of safety shape our imaginations? How can Christians navigate the tension of pursuing safety as a creational good in light of the eschatological aims of discipleship?
In this volume in IVP Academic's Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture series, theologian Jeremy Lundgren provides a constructive theological analysis of safety. After addressing the conceptual development of safety and risk through premodern, early modern, and late modern settings, he gives practical guidance to the contemporary church on how to faithfully engage with the pursuit of safety in the present day.
Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture, edited by Daniel J. Treier and Kevin J. Vanhoozer, promotes evangelical contributions to systematic theology, seeking fresh understanding of Christian doctrine through creatively faithful engagement with Scripture in dialogue with church tradition.
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I: Signposts of Safety in the Modern Landscape
1. Tokens of Safety
2. The Form and Status of Safety Today
Part II: Sources of Danger Through the Ages
3. Humanity against the Gods: Premodern Risk
4. Humanity against Nature: Early Modern Risk
5. Humanity against Itself: Late Modern Risk
Part III: Avoiding Harm in a Fallen World
6. Grasping the Future: Probabilities and the Promises of God
7. Ordering Creation: Technology, Idols, and the Cross of Christ
8. Guiding Action: Procedures, Forgiveness, and the Advantage of Wisdom
Part IV: Living and Dying Under the Lordship of Christ
9. Discipleship and the Demands of Safety
10. Putting Safety in Its Place
Bibliography
Om författaren
Marc Cortez (Ph D, St Andrews) is professor of theology at Wheaton College. He is the author of Resourcing Theological Anthropology, Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective, Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed, and Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies.
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