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God against religion : rethinking Christian theology through worship

"This volume outlines a Christian theology that takes worship as its basic framework, as the occasion of not only approach toward God in piety but also separation from God in sin. Drawing on Luther, Calvin, and especially Karl Barth, Matthew Myer Boulton builds a Reformed liturgical theology, maintaining that the God of Jesus Christ if a "God against religion," one who saves human beings from religion by entering it, transforming it, and ultimately ending it."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2008
W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 2008
xviii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780802829726, 0802829724
181517060
Introduction: Rethinking theology through worship in the reformed tradition
The invention of God
Karl Barth on worship as "fall"
The work of "religion"
The creation of Eve
Revelation, idolatry, and the Holy Spirit
Rereading Genesis 2-4
Eden and intimacy
Leitourgia and separation
Religion and murder
"We pray by His mouth"
Karl Barth on worship as "reconciliation"
The work of human being
The work of gratitude
Conspiracy and solidarity
Martin Luther and Christian life
Martin Luther's simul
Penitential life
Baptismal life
God against religion
A theology of invocation
The end of Christianity
The play of redemption
Postlude : Reforming worship
"No difference at all"
"All the difference in the world"
Christian Baptism
Christian Communion