God Against Religion: Rethinking Christian Theology through Worship

This volume outlines a Christian theology that takes worship as its basic framework, as the occasion of not only an approach toward God in piety but also separation from God in sin. Drawing on Luther, Calvin, and especially Karl Barth, Matthew Myer Boulton builds a Reformed liturgical theology, maintaining that the God of Jesus Christ is a "God against religion," one who saves human beings from religion by entering it, transforming it, and ultimately ending it.

Author: Matthew Myer Boulton
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 02/01/2008
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.26w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780802829726

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 08/12/2008 pg. 42
Christian Century 05/05/2009 pg. 25

About the Author
Boulton, Matthew Myer: - Matthew Myer Boulton is associate professor of ministry studies at Harvard Divinity School. An ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), he serves on the ministerial staff at Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts. His books incl