Reformed Protestantism has undergone drastic changes throughout its history in America. Although it has become less prominent in American society, Douglas Ottati reminds us that this Christian movement is still a dynamic and important witness to our world. This book is an important contribution to promoting, deepening, and extending the distinctive spirit and witness of Reformed Protestantism.
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Ottati describes the spirit of reforming Protestantism as a theocentric piety characterized by a transforming orientation or bias toward faithful participation in God's commonwealth. This piety is at odds with therapeutic, moralistic, and communitarian movements that have emerged in response to modern crises as ways to disengage the church from the world. Ottati argues that the challenge for reforming Protestantism (which includes not only the reformed tradition narrowly defined, but also the mainstream of the churches that emerged out of the Reformation) is to remain engaged in the world--hence the transforming bias. This leads, appropriately, to an insightful discussion of vocation and the sanctification of the ordinary. The book is thoroughly informed by the reformed tradition, but it speaks beyond that tradition and will be of interest to readers genuinely concerned about the church as a faithful community and a social institution "in, with, for, and against the world." Steve Schroeder
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Douglas F. Ottati is an elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Craig Family Distinguished Professor in Reformed Theology and Justice Ministry at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. He is the author of Meaning and Method in H. Richard Niebuhr's Theology, Jesus Christ and Christian Vision, Reforming Protestantism: Christian Commitment in Today's World, and Hopeful Realism: Reclaiming the Poetry of Theology.He is also a general editor of the Library of Theological Ethics series.
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