The Matrix of Faith: Reclaiming a Christian Vision

By Jeffrey C. Pugh

Book Overview

Weaving together culture, history and theology, "The Matrix of Faith" aims to bring lively Christian teachings from past generations into conversation with the present. Pugh writes that the way ahead... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824518985
• ISBN13: 9780824518981
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The challenge of difference

From Augustine to Bonhoeffer, Pugh draws on the life and writings of various classical Christian thinkers, to let the past address today's postmodern concerns. The book is a challenge to one untrained in philosophy, but the last chapter especially is worth the effort. Showing us the changing faces of Christianity through history, the author warns against attempts to freeze Scripture. It may be easier to live with one definitive interpretation, but the result is a loss of the living spirit of faith. Faith needs confrontation with differences in interpretation in order to remain alive and meet the needs of today's pluralistic culture.

an introduction to a new way of thinking...

What Jeff Pugh has accomplished with this work is nothing short of amazing. While the faiths of the world battle over interpretations and power structures, Christianity finds a new voice for itself that emerges from its own past. In The Matrix of Faith, Pugh examines the issue of postmodernity and takes uses a series of voices from Martin Luther to Anselm of Canterbury to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and challenges contemporary Christians to find a new way of understanding the narratives of their faith. An important work for any young scholar seeking an entrance into the world of postmodern theology or any member of the Christian community seeking a new way of living their faith.