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She examines two church communities that exemplify ecclesial commitments and practices rooted in confession of sin and repentance Through these communities she demonstrates that confession and repentance may be embodied in various ways yet also discerns distinguishing characteristics of a redemptive public witness The Church for the World offers important insights about Christian particularity and public engagement in a pluralistic society as it provides a theological foundation for public witness that is simultaneously bold and when its mode of being in the world is confession of sin unto repentance.

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Drawing on the writings of German pastor theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer Jennifer M McBride constructs a groundbreaking theology of public witness for Protestant church communities in the United States In contrast to the triumphal manner in which many Protestants have engaged the public sphere The Church for the World shows how the church can offer a nontriumphal witness to the lordship of Christ through repentant activity in public life After investigating current Christian conceptions of witness in the United States McBride offers a new theology for repentance as public witness based on Bonhoeffer s thought concerning Christ the world and the church McBride takes up Bonhoeffer s proposal that repentance may be reinterpreted non religiously expanding and challenging common understandings of the concept Finally the church demonstrates Christ s redemptive work and becomes a vehicle of concrete redemption The Church for the World A Theology of Public WitnessJennifer McBride was born and raised in Western Australia where she lives with her husband and two daughters She enjoys reading writing and watching movies with a particular love of fantasy and science fiction After many hectic years balancing secretarial work and parenting she has finally found time to co author her first children s novel Shimmer When she is not writing Jennifer loves travelling watching the Fremantle Dockers and spending time with her family. Worldwide church of god hymnal pdf A well reasoned argument for the churches place in the modern world undergirded by Bonhoeffer s thoughts in relation to vicarious community with a focus on repentance just as the Cross is the most visible and direct expression in a fallen world of Christ s being for others which defines the new humanity so the church as a fall and body manifest the new humanity primarily by belonging wholly to the world through confessing its own sin and accepting responsibility for the sin of border society with which it is intimately related p123 Paperback