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The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-And-Found of Church
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The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-And-Found of Church History Paperback - 1996

by Farrar Capon, R

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  • Title The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-And-Found of Church History
  • Author Farrar Capon, R
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition EXCELLENT READER
  • Pages 132
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9352809
  • ISBN 9780802807915 / 0802807917
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 5.98 x 0.36 in (23.22 x 15.19 x 0.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Mainline
  • Library of Congress subjects Church history, Spiritual life - Christianity
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95046080
  • Dewey Decimal Code 262

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From the rear cover

Where has the church been, and what has it become? According to Robert Farrar Capon, the answers to these questions are in many ways dispiriting. Although the church has done much good, it has also made numerous blunders in its checkered history. Chief among them is that it has lost its astonishment over the Good News of the gospel - the gift of salvation we receive from Christ. By taking readers on an illuminating ramble through the history of the church, Capon shows how we have lost this sense of astonishment by making Christianity into a religion that focuses on requirements and restrictions rather than on the Good News, and by turning the church, which should be a body of believers, into an institution that emphasizes its corporate functions to the detriment of its gospel message. After exploring all the ways in which the church has mis-embodied itself over the centuries, Capon explains how the church today might re-create itself. The key, according to Capon, is recovering the gift of astonishment with which it began. Capon is fully alert to both the tragedy and the comedy of church history, and he covers this uneven ground with great heart and great humor - and genuine hope for the future of the church.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/15/1996, Page 964

About the author

Robert Farrar Capon (1925-2013) was an Episcopal priest and the author of many popular books, including The Supper of the Lamb.

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