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Аннотация
According to Hebrews, the Son of God appeared to «break the power of him who holds the power of death–that is, the devil–and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.» What does it mean to be enslaved, all our lives, to the fear of death? And why is this fear described as «the power of the devil»? And most importantly, how are we–as individuals and as faith communities–to be set free from this slavery to death?
In another creative interdisciplinary fusion, Richard Beck blends Eastern Orthodox perspectives, biblical text, existential psychology, and contemporary theology to describe our slavery to the fear of death, a slavery rooted in the basic anxieties of self-preservation and the neurotic anxieties at the root of our self-esteem. Driven by anxiety–enslaved to the fear of death–we are revealed to be morally and spiritually vulnerable as «the sting of death is sin.» Beck argues that in the face of this predicament, resurrection is experienced as liberation from the slavery of death in the martyrological, eccentric, cruciform, and communal capacity to overcome fear in living fully and sacrificially for others.
In another creative interdisciplinary fusion, Richard Beck blends Eastern Orthodox perspectives, biblical text, existential psychology, and contemporary theology to describe our slavery to the fear of death, a slavery rooted in the basic anxieties of self-preservation and the neurotic anxieties at the root of our self-esteem. Driven by anxiety–enslaved to the fear of death–we are revealed to be morally and spiritually vulnerable as «the sting of death is sin.» Beck argues that in the face of this predicament, resurrection is experienced as liberation from the slavery of death in the martyrological, eccentric, cruciform, and communal capacity to overcome fear in living fully and sacrificially for others.
Аннотация
"I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the «unclean» in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. At every turn, it seems that the psychological pull of purity and holiness tempts the church into practices of social exclusion and a Gnostic flight from «the world» into a «too spiritual» spirituality. Moreover, the psychology of purity often lures the church into what psychologists call «The Macbeth Effect,» the psychological trap that tempts us into believing that ritual acts of cleansing can replace moral and missional engagement. Finally, time after time, wherever we see churches regulating their common life with the idiom of dirt, disgust, and defilement, we find a predictable wake of dysfunction: ruined self-images, social stigma, and communal conflict. In an unprecedented fusion of psychological science and theological scholarship, Richard Beck describes the pernicious (and largely unnoticed) effects of the psychology of purity upon the life and mission of the church.