Untimely Christianity
Untimely Christianity
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Untimely Christianity
Hearing the Bible in a Secular Age
Michael Edwards; foreword by Alister McGrath
Fortress Press, 2022
ISBN 9781506480879
Softcover, 174 pp.
8.9 X 5.8 X 0.7 inches | 0.6 pounds
Christianity is always untimely, always foreign to our beliefs and contrary to our desires. It was untimely in Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome when Jesus and his early followers were killed. It is just as untimely now. But we have become deaf to its otherness, to the disruptive strangeness of Christian faith. If we are to hear it again, we must traverse the distance between our comfortable and overly conceptual Christianity and the true Christianity that ""turns the whole world upside down.""
In Untimely Christianity, acclaimed poet and literary scholar Michael Edwards calls for a countercultural Christianity that recovers the Bible's radical otherness and renews our habits of attention to its message--to its revelation of a God who is not merely a set of doctrines but a person, someone we can know. Edwards's work is an eloquent, prophetic effort to recapture the revolutionary power of the Bible to transform the way humans view the world and how they live in it. Rich in theology, philosophy, poetry, biblical interpretation, and cultural criticism, Untimely Christianity invites readers of all kinds to encounter the Bible anew, as "a continuous questioning of the reader and a prodigious expansion of reality."
John Marson Dunaway is professor emeritus of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
Alister McGrath is a theologian, intellectual historian, Christian apologist, and Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University. He has written numerous books, including C. S. Lewis: A Life, The Dawkins Delusion?, and Mere Discipleship.
