Education of Christian Faith Critical and Literary Encounters with the New Testament

by Cragg, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9781902210490
• ISBN10: 1902210492
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

This study explores the taxing question of whether Christ-Learning should be an ongoing process by presenting examples of the critical and personal learning undertaken by minds exercised with scholarship, ecclesiology, poetry, the novel and sexuality. While the responses to faith in Christ of the seven chosen figures Chr(45) Richard Hooker, John Henry Newman, Robert Browning, William Faulkner, Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde Chr(45) are highly personal, it is the theme of "education", which was at the heart of every Messianic achievement, that throws up confrontations to the orthodox approach to faith. These individuals are eminently representative of biography wrestling with what the New Testament Scripture first understood. Their experiences can be signified in a New Testament play on words: "emathen apathen" Chr(45) "suffering they learned, learning they suffered".

Author Biography

Bishop Kenneth Cragg, an author and an Arabist, served in Beirut, Jerusalem and Cairo. He is a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and was formerly Bye-Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
THEN AND THERE
Jesus in His Christ Experience	3	(18)
The First World: Galilee and Jerusalem	21	(17)
Into Mediterranean Dispersion	38	(21)
HERE AND SINCE
In the Cares of New Testament Scholarship	59	(23)
In the Ebbing of ``Ecclesiastical Polity'' -- with the Heirs of Richard Hooker	82	(20)
Amid the Irony of ``Kindly Light''	102	(19)
John Henry Newman
Through the Reach of Poetic Doubt	121	(18)
Robert Browning
Down Among the Human Dregs	139	(18)
William Faulkner
In the Pride and Prejudice of Empire	157	(18)
Rudyard Kipling
At the Madman's Bell Ringing the Death of God	175	(19)
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the Homo-Erotic World	194	(17)
Oscar Wilde
De Profundis
Christ-Learning as Personal Crisis	211	(20)
Notes	231	(35)
Index of Names and Terms	266	(6)
Index of Themes	272	(6)
Scriptural Citations	278