Tending the Fire That Burns at the Center of the World

Tending the Fire That Burns at the Center of the World
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9781666742565
ISBN-13 : 1666742562
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Book Synopsis Tending the Fire That Burns at the Center of the World by : David F. White

Download or read book Tending the Fire That Burns at the Center of the World written by David F. White and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tending the Fire 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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