Author
Bishop Stephen Sykes
Book Format
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Publisher
Continuum
Published
May 2006
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Bishop Stephen Sykes
Book Format
paperback
Publisher
Continuum
Published
May 2006
£34.65
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Power and Christian Theology
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In Power and Christian Theology, Stephen Sykes examines the ambiguous role played by the concept of power in Christian theology. Centuries of experience of the abuse of power have taught us to be instinctively suspicious of it. But can a faith which celebrates a ‘God of power and might’ dispense with it entirely?
In the history of theology, and based in the Scriptures, are to be found diverging tendencies; one which sees no difficulty in the affirmation of divine power and its human embodiment, the other in which power is radically re-thought. In early modern Europe power was given new, realistic expression, and the discipline of sociology was born. Theology has had consequently to face new problems.
Stephen Sykes argues that it is not credible to attempt to dissociate Christian faith from the phenomena of power in their entirety. He holds that human beings are enmeshed in a deeply ambiguous context, a world of overlapping and intersecting powers. The dangers which inevitably accompany the use of power are better avoided by their explicit recognition, than by heroic exercises of self-deception.
Author
Bishop Stephen Sykes
Book Format
paperback
Publisher
Continuum
Published
May 2006
Weight
232g
Page Count
160
Dimensions
146 x 215 x 15 mm
ISBN
9780826476517
ISBN-10
0826476511
Eden Code
97323
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Author/Creator: Bishop Stephen Sykes
ISBN: 9780826476517
Publisher: Continuum
Release Date: May 2006
Weight: 232g
Dimensions: 146 x 215 x 15 mm
Eden Code: 97323