The Heart of Christianity
Rediscovering a Life of Faith
Excerpt
Chapter OneThe Heart of Christianity
in a Time of Change
What is the "heart" of Christianity? What is most central to Christianity and to being Christian?
The question arises in each new period of Christian history. It is
especially important in our time. A new way of seeing Christianity
and what it means to be Christian is emerging in the church in North
America. Because this vision of Christianity is quite different from
the dominant way of seeing Christianity over the past few hundred
years, our time is also a time of con flict. In our context of change and
con flict, what is Christianity's "heart"?
Like all good metaphors, heart has more than one nuance of meaning. To begin with, it suggests what is most central. What is the core
of Christianity, the "heart of the matter"? What is the essence of
Christianity and the Christian life?
If "core" and "essence" suggest something too abstract,too lifeless,
heart is also an organic metaphor, suggesting something alive, pulsating, the source of life. What is t ... read full excerpt from: The Heart of Christianity ebook
