Self and Salvation
Being Transformed

An important and original theological and philosophical study of the ideas of self and Christian salvation.

David F. Ford (Author)

9780521426169, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 4 March 1999

316 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.418 kg

"...one of the most provocative theological explorations of "self and salvation" in a post-modern key." Pro Ecclesia

This eagerly awaited book by David F. Ford makes a unique and important contribution to the debate about the Christian doctrine of salvation. Using the pivotal image of the face, Professor Ford offers a constructive and contemporary account of the self being transformed. He engages with three modern thinkers (Levinas, Jüngel and Ricoeur) in order to rethink and reimagine the meaning of self. Developing the concept of a worshipping self, he explores the dimensions of salvation through the lenses of scripture, worship practices, the life, death and resurrection of Christ, and the lives of contemporary saints. He uses different genres and traditions to show how the self flourishes through engagement with God, other people, and the responsibilities and joys of ordinary living. The result is a habitable theology of salvation immersed in Christian faith, thought and practice while also being deeply involved with modern life in a pluralist world.

Preface
Part I. Dialogues: Levinas, Jüngel, Ricoeur: 1. Facing
2. Enjoyment, responsibility and desire: a hospitable self
3. God, otherness and substitution
a self without idols
4. Language, love and testimony: a worshipping self
Part II. Flourishings: 5. The communication of God's abundance: a singing self
6. Do this: a Eucharist self
7. Facing Jesus Christ
8. The face on the cross and the worship of God
9. Love as vocation
Thérèse of Lisieux
10. Polyphonic living: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
11. Feasting
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM]