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How can the things we do and say in Church impact our lives and shape the decisions we make on a daily basis?
What kind of life is implied for people who believe the things that Christians believe?
Faithful Living attempts to think through these questions and considers the formational impact worship can have on Christian ethics, and therefore on the lives of Christian disciples. It focuses on one of the Church's regular practices, reciting the Nicene Creed, and offers an ethical commentary on the Creed's key ideas and themes, challenging Christians from all traditions to think through their faith in order to live faith-fully before God. In so doing, it seeks to hold Christian belief and practice (what are often more formally called doctrine and practice) together.
Each chapter addresses one clause from the Creed, attending to its theological meaning, before turning to the ethical implications associated with it.
Topics include community, food, politics, disability, suffering, hope, discernment, and catechesis.
Contents
Preface 1
Nicene Creed 8
1. Ethics by Implication 9
2. 'We Believe in God': Community and Morality 29
3. 'Maker of Heaven and Earth': Consuming Our Fellow Creatures 51
4. 'In One Lord, Jesus Christ': Political Responsibility 75
5. 'Conceived of the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary':
Disability and Humanity 95
6. 'Suffered Death and was Buried': Suffering 116
7. 'On the Third Day He Rose Again': Hope and Moral Vision 132
8. 'The Lord and Giver of Life': The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life 148
9. 'Communion of Saints, Forgiveness of Sins': The Church and Practical Catechesis 165
Bibliography 183
Index of Biblical References
Index of Names and Subjects
