TY - BOOK AU - Houston,J.M. TI - Joyful exiles: life in Christ on the dangerous edge of things SN - 0830833242 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BV4501.3 .H683 2006 U1 - 248.4 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Downers Grove, Ill. PB - IVP Books KW - Christian life N1 - "Formatio"--P. [2]; Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-200) and index; Prologue: Why dialectics? -- pt. 1. Christian faith as a way of life and a new identity. The breath of the hidden life -- Being open to a visionary life before God -- pt. 2. The priority of personal calling over institutional life. The surrealism of Christian public life -- The journey toward becoming a person -- pt. 3. Maturing in community, transmitting faith in person. Living the truth in love -- Christian transmission in an age of disjunction -- Epilogue: Communal maturity in Christ -- Appendix: Why the rhetoric of dialectics? ER -