Religious, Not Spiritual: Toward a Christian Faith that Matters by Schaefer, Mark a.

Religious, Not Spiritual: Toward a Christian Faith that Matters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781976465840)

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Religious, Not Spiritual: Toward a Christian Faith that Matters by Schaefer, Mark a.

Religious, Not Spiritual: Toward a Christian Faith that Matters

$12.99
Religious, Not Spiritual: Toward a Christian Faith that Matters by Schaefer, Mark a.

Religious, Not Spiritual: Toward a Christian Faith that Matters

$12.99
Format: Paperback
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Contemporary Christian faith is often an overly spiritualized, escapist faith focused on the guarantee of life after death as the main end of Christian living. Escapist ideas like the Rapture, once on the fringe, have become understood both within the church and without as central to the Christian message. Such a faith can seem disconnected from the real world issues that so many people face and as a result becomes less and less appealing to those who are looking for a faith of substance. Religious, Not Spiritual is a review and reaffirmation of the often neglected, but deeply material nature of Christian faith. Examining traditional doctrines of Creation, Incarnation, Sacrament, Resurrection, and New Creation, the book demonstrates that Christianity has everything to do with the physical world and our place in it. In the book we discover that far from promoting a spirituality that looks toward the day when we can escape the world and live in heaven with God, Christian faith has always affirmed the world as the place of God's salvation, which God does not abandon, but seeks to redeem and restore. Religious, Not Spiritual reminds us that Christianity is deeply engaged with our physical being, our embodied existence, and life in the here and now.

Author: Mark a. Schaefer
ISBN-10: 1976465842
ISBN-13: 9781976465840
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2017
Pages: 154
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.33d
By Mark a. Schaefer
By Mark a. Schaefer
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Mark Schaefer is University Chaplain at American University, appointed to the position in September 2016 after having served for 14 years as AU's United Methodist Chaplain. He is a graduate of Wesley Theological Seminary and is an ordained elder in the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church. Rev. Schaefer has also been teaching as an adjunct professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department since fall 2006. He has also been a summer instructor in Biblical Greek and New Testament at neighboring Wesley Theological Seminary. Prior to his ecclesiastical career, Rev. Schaefer was a practicing attorney in the District of Columbia and is a graduate of the George Washington University Law School. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Russian Language and Literature from the State University of New York at Albany. A native of New York State, Rev. Schaefer has lived in Washington, D.C. for over 25 years.

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