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Robust Kristendom
(Cursory translation)
Faith, hope and love is a biblical triad that permeates a healthy and robust Christian life - a triad that first and foremost leads to a relationship with Jesus. We find ourselves being anchored in an eternal world to come while living in a temporary world. We are on our way home and need to fully present - simultaneously.
Have the words faith, hope and love become meaningless, a romantic cliché and unappealing to a reflective Christina? Eriksen explains thoroughly and in a nuanced way how the words are fundamental for a robust Christianity that can withstand when old Christian values and ideas are being confronted by what is political correct in a secularized society.
In this book, Eriksen explains what it means to be a Christian in the 21. century. A guided tour in the Bible looking at each of the words that both challenges and encourages to live a Christian life, to live out this temporary life and at the same time looking ahead with Jesus being the centre of it all.
Faith, hope and love is a biblical triad that permeates a healthy and robust Christian life - a triad that first and foremost leads to a relationship with Jesus. We find ourselves being anchored in an eternal world to come while living in a temporary world. We are on our way home and need to fully present - simultaneously.
Have the words faith, hope and love become meaningless, a romantic cliché and unappealing to a reflective Christina? Eriksen explains thoroughly and in a nuanced way how the words are fundamental for a robust Christianity that can withstand when old Christian values and ideas are being confronted by what is political correct in a secularized society.
In this book, Eriksen explains what it means to be a Christian in the 21. century. A guided tour in the Bible looking at each of the words that both challenges and encourages to live a Christian life, to live out this temporary life and at the same time looking ahead with Jesus being the centre of it all.
159 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2018
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January 16, 2023
En meget fin bog der går gennem vigtigheden af tro, håb og kærlighed.
Min eneste umiddelbare kritik er at ordet "dimension" forekommer alt for ofte.
Min eneste umiddelbare kritik er at ordet "dimension" forekommer alt for ofte.
March 5, 2021
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Eriksen's incentive for writing this book is the fact that Christianity is losing its foothold and its role as a valuable player on the field of Europe. Due to the increase of secularization of the society, values and ideas are becoming increasingly subjective and faith has been undergone a privatization.
He uses the early church as a guideline on how to stay resilient in times like these as he relates contemporary Christians to the early Christians' experience of being a minority. He sets out to know what we can learn from the early Christians as the early church went from being a minority in the outer skirts of Rome to be the driving religious force in the Western world.
Eriksen believes that our answer on how to keep a robust Christianity lies in Paul's teaching on faith, hope and love.
Conclusion, overall, I enjoyed this book as it dares to challenge the passivity found amongst Christians - a passivity regarding love; being proactive, making a real effort in trying to love others. With that being said, I feel unsatisfied. Eriksen does not succeed in providing practical ideas and perspectives on how to become more loving. At times, he even self-contradicts himself as he, on one hand, says that we are being transformed to be more Christ-like, but on the other hand, he argues that we will never be able to show genuine love on this side of eternity. It is a constant tension between love being a fruit of Spirit and it being a real choice willed by a human being changing still by the Spirit.
His chapter on hope was refreshing as it stands in contrast to what the world tells us. Hope gives us the bigger perspective and frees us from the feeling of lack, stress and anxiety - even FOMO.
I just lacked the aspect of metaphysical realism---
Eriksen's incentive for writing this book is the fact that Christianity is losing its foothold and its role as a valuable player on the field of Europe. Due to the increase of secularization of the society, values and ideas are becoming increasingly subjective and faith has been undergone a privatization.
He uses the early church as a guideline on how to stay resilient in times like these as he relates contemporary Christians to the early Christians' experience of being a minority. He sets out to know what we can learn from the early Christians as the early church went from being a minority in the outer skirts of Rome to be the driving religious force in the Western world.
Eriksen believes that our answer on how to keep a robust Christianity lies in Paul's teaching on faith, hope and love.
Conclusion, overall, I enjoyed this book as it dares to challenge the passivity found amongst Christians - a passivity regarding love; being proactive, making a real effort in trying to love others. With that being said, I feel unsatisfied. Eriksen does not succeed in providing practical ideas and perspectives on how to become more loving. At times, he even self-contradicts himself as he, on one hand, says that we are being transformed to be more Christ-like, but on the other hand, he argues that we will never be able to show genuine love on this side of eternity. It is a constant tension between love being a fruit of Spirit and it being a real choice willed by a human being changing still by the Spirit.
His chapter on hope was refreshing as it stands in contrast to what the world tells us. Hope gives us the bigger perspective and frees us from the feeling of lack, stress and anxiety - even FOMO.
I just lacked the aspect of metaphysical realism---
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