Transforming Faith: Individual and Community in H. Richard Niebuhr
- ISBN-10
- 149820449X
- ISBN-13
- 9781498204491
- Series
- Transforming Faith
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-09-09
- Publisher
- Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Author
- Joshua Leonard Daniel
Description
In the face of apparently rampant individualism, there has been a steady call for a return to community and tradition, particularly in religious communities and in recent Christian theology and ethics. The form of contemporary life upheld by modern ideals like freedom and universalism, the story goes, turns out to divide people from each other and from the communal sources of our traditionally moral values. But the call to community too often confuses individualism with individuality, assuming that any appeal to individuality as a value or ideal is a rejection of communal goods, rather than a mode of promoting those goods. What's necessary now is a recovery of the individual that understands individuality to serve community, even in resistance to it. In Transforming Faith, Joshua Daniel offers a fresh reading of H. Richard Niebuhr's theological ethics that provides an account of individuality and individual creativity as both the fruits and reformers of community. What is theologically at stake in Daniel's reconstructive interpretation is the human's existentially resonant relation with God and the christological revitalization of our symbolic and virtuous activity.
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