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Book Review: Jan-Olav Henriksen, Christianity as Distinct Practices: A Complicated Relationship (T&T Clark, 2019)
Graham, Elaine
Graham, Elaine
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2020-03-08
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Review of Henriksen's book in which he argues that Christianity (and religion in general) has been perceived, both within the academy and society at large, as primarily an intellectual undertaking, whereas it should more properly be considered as ‘a cluster of practices that taken together manifest a distinct historically and contextually shaped mode of being in the world’. While Henriksen is not unique amongst contemporary scholars in regarding ‘religion as practice’ and ‘theology as practical’, it is his attempt to forge connections between the two and to pursue the logic of a philosophical reading of religion as practice through to a theological reading of the distinctive qualities of Christian practices that is of particular significance.
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Graham, E. (2020). Book review: Jan-Olav Henriksen, Christianity as Distinct Practices: A Complicated Relationship. Theology, 123(2), 141-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X19894860f
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SAGE Publications
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Theology
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10.1177/0040571X19894860f
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2044-2696