Confessing Our Faith | An Interpretation of the Statement of Faith of the United Church of Christ (Shinn)

Confessing Our Faith | An Interpretation of the Statement of Faith of the United Church of Christ (Shinn)History and Commentary on the UCC Statement of Faith This interpretation of Christian faith organized in terms of "the Great Story" of scripture, not topically like the classical creeds is an example of narrative theology. It is an interpretation, in some ways a reinterpretation, of the 1959 Statement of Faith of the United Church of Christ. (Since that time, a variety of theological movements has stirred the churches and two revisions of the original

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For those who worry that they have failed life

calling for a fatphobic reckoning for the sake of God’s gospel of freedom

Deftly and dramatically illustrated

and stories into which they have been recruited in order to liberate themselves to discern how to best make use of their personal and political agency and efficacy

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intersecting with political strains for liberation and well-being

leaping like dolphins in the deep

and Greenhouses of Hope

Each essay explores a biblical story