Canvas: A Portrait of Humanity Student Guide - Softcover

Desilva, David; Cherry, Rev Natalya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501859471 ISBN 13: 9781501859472

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2018

Synopsis

Embracing the Wideness describes the shared space where author Ken Carter contrasts a generous orthodoxy with the culture wars that seek to drive a wedge between Christians with deep faith convictions. A generous orthodoxy is possible for The United Methodist Church because scripture supports both a confessing movement and a reconciling movement. In addition to our divergent understandings of holiness in The United Methodist Church, we apparently have two distinct conceptions of church. These two conceptions of church present in American Methodism for at least 200 years from seeds were planted in the earliest practice of British Methodism, are: • a separatist church, which views holiness as a calling that separates us from the world—“come out from among them and be separated” (2 Corinthians 6:17). Here holiness is a quality that distinguishes Christians from the world. • an activist church, which understands holiness as a movement for change in an unjust world. The boundaries between church and society are blurred, with the “wheat and tares” growing together (Matthew 13) until God’s final judgment. At times, a denomination is able to hold these two conceptions of church in tension. And at times, as in recent experiences of American mainline Christianity, there is fragmentation and division. The division may finally be the result of clearly articulated values that are not compatible. And the division may also be the result of how leaders of the two conceptions of church do harm to each other. What great things could be accomplished if we rediscovered an orthodoxy in service

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About the Authors

Dr. David A. deSilva, an elder in the Florida Annual Conference, attended Princeton University, Princeton Theological Seminary and earned his Ph.D. in Religion at Emory University. He currently serves as Trustees' Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary. He has written over twenty books, including Unholy Allegiances: Heeding Revelation's Warning, The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Introducing the Apocrypha. He also served as Apocrypha Editor for the Common English Bible and has published extensively in journals, reference works, and adult Bible curriculum.

Dr. Natalya Cherry, an elder in the Susquehanna Conference, earned her BA from Georgetown University, MDiv from Wesley Theological Seminary, and PhD from Southern Methodist University. Having served churches in DC, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, she joined Brite Divinity School on the Campus of Texas Christian University in 2018 as Assistant Professor in Methodist Studies and Theology. Dr. Cherry, the author of several articles, is turning her dissertation, Believing Into Christ: Restoring the Relational Sense of Belief as Constitutive of the Christian Faith, into a book and is also working on multiple projects in Methodist Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501859471
• ISBN 13: 9781501859472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72