Interrupting Tradition <subTitle>An essay on Christian faith in a postmodern context</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Boeve, Lieven</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">2:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">Belgium</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Peeters Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>183tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>23 cm.</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>The author of the present study argues that every new context challenges the Christian tradition to recontextualise its presentation of meaning and purpose in a cogent and credible fashion. Christians today do themselves a disservice when they withdraw into a world of absolute self-justification.... The results of Boeve's study reveal that Christians to indeed have the capacity to reflect on their faith in a credible and relevant manner in relation to the actual context in which they find themselves and without relapsing into the extremes of traditionalism or relativism...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Lieven Boeve</note> <subject> <topic>Christianity and other religions</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Theology, Doctrinal</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Tradition (Theology)</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Postmodernism (Theology)</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">230</classification> <classification authority="ddc">L722-B67</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9042912820</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12018/49.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12018/49.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071102.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>