Saving Memory and the Body of Christ

For Christians, memories of God given in the Christian Bible are juxtaposed, echoed, and expanded within and outside Christian communities of faith. In Saving Memory and the Body of Christ, Sedgwick argues, Christians are attuned to the polyphony that is the voice of God calling those who have ears to hear into the love and grace of God in life together.Sharing together in the Eucharist, he goes on to describe, Christians remember, celebrate, and are drawn into life in God as imaged in the Greek word 'kenosis,' meaning emptying oneself. Christian faith is accordingly what the Latin word 'credo' means: to give one's heart to God, hence, to give oneself in faith and fidelity to the memory of God.In the memory of God, Christian faith is a practical piety. In prayer and worship Christians remember and respond to the call of God to life lived in the grace and love of God, in the glory of creation, in birth and death, in sickness and health, in compassion and care for one another in creation. This is the birth of moral conscience, hearing in the voice of others what claims those who have faith and calls for response.

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By Timothy F. Sedgwick

Résumé
Saving Memory and the Body of Christ defines the memory of God as the memory of Christ known in worship, in word and sacrament, which calls Christians into the life of the world together as many in one in compassion and care.

Contenu

Chapter One: The Voice of God

Chapter Two: The Scaffolding of Memory

Chapter Three: Word: The Memory of God

Chapter Four: Sacrament: Incarnate Memory

Chapter Five: Assembly: Many in One

Chapter Six: Church: One in Many

Chapter Seven: Hallowed Be Thy Name