RT Book
T1 The dangers of Christian practice: on wayward gifts, characteristic damage, and sin
A1 Winner, Lauren F. 1976-
LA English
PP New Haven
PB Yale University Press
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1664815724
AB Characteristic damage -- Eucharist -- Prayer -- Baptism -- Damaged gifts.
AB "Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculate practices that will definitionally train Christians in virtue and that can't be answerable to their histories. Is there, for instance, an account of prayer that has anything useful to say about a slave-owning woman's praying for her slaves' obedience? Is there a robustly theological account of the Eucharist that connects the Eucharist's goods to the sacrament's central role in medieval Christian murder of Jews? Arguing that practices are deformed in ways that are characteristic of and intrinsic to the practices themselves, Winner proposes that the register in which Christians might best think about the Eucharist, prayer, and baptism is that of 'damaged gift.' Christians go on with these practices because, though blighted by sin, they remain gifts from God."--
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and index
CN BV4501.3
SN 9780300215823
K1 Christian Life
K1 Christianity : Customs and practices
K1 Sin : Christianity
K1 Spiritual Life : Christianity
K1 Lord's Supper
K1 Prayer : Christianity
K1 Baptism
K1 Gifts : Religious aspects : Christianity