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• W320009529 abstract "A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church. By Ephraim Radner. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2012. 482 pp. $59.95 (cloth).This rich volume complements Ephraim Radners ground-breaking 1998 book, The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West. Here, Radner (Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College, Toronto) embarks on a journey to discover an understanding of the unity of the church in its most concrete, historical, and tangible expression. do this he explores what he terms the church's eristology-a neologism that denotes the study of division and disputation within the church. His thesis is both simple and profound: To live is to give up and give away parts of ourselves (p. 1). Radner unfolds this idea throughout the book.In the first chapters, he sets out to refute prevalent notions among Christian theologians that religious disunity is not intimately related to social conflict and violence. The history of Rwanda serves to illustrate that the habits of disunity within the divided church facilitated the atrocities of the Rwandan genocide. For Radner, the church failed to inculcate tangible and concrete practices of coming to agreement, in large measure because of an abstract view of the church's unity. Though there is good theological reason to confess that the church is indeed united in some sense (that is, in Christ), doing so without significant nuance has led to habits of action and thought that fail to engage real divisions in the church.This discussion of the church's failings leads Radner to investigate the ideal of conciliarism and the quest to cultivate agreement. Through an examination of the council described in Acts 15 and patristic views of apostolicity, Radner outlines a theology of synodality. He traces the conciliar ideal throughout the Middle Ages and concludes his discussion with a vision for a Christian life that is patterned on the self-giving love of God as a necessary prerequisite to coming to concordance within the church. Radner also provides an overview of several instances of so-called agreement in the history of the church and analyzes their failings through the lens of contemporary philosophical work that studies the dynamics of coming to real agreement.In the final chapters, Radner describes the role of procedure in the developing conciliar vision of unity. Such procedures provide structures by which engagement with division may take place, but have inevitably failed to produce unity. …" @default.
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