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A. James Reimer believes that it does matter, and that the church ignores these discussions at its own peril. In short, accessible essays, James A. Reimer approaches the dogmas of the Christian faith with humor, insight, and imagination. Here basics such as heaven, hell, prayer, and judgment are explained with historical insight and contemporary application. Anabaptist Mennonite priorities emerge but with appreciation for the churches wider historical context and traditions. Reimer refuses to consider these topics either too controversial or too boring. Rather, he imagines exciting encounters with the mysteries of faith that can only come from a dogmatic imagination.

Copyright 2003.

This book is not a systematic theology. The essays collected here are theological reflections on diverse themes of systematic theology, written over more than twenty years. The essays are meditations on the world in which we in the West have lived over the past centuries, on what it might mean as a Mennonite to think systematically about the Christian faith in a world of technical reason, and how the classical imagination might have relevance for us today. Most have been previously published and are here reprinted as they initially appeared, occasionally with some minor revisions. The short introductions preceding each essay are written in retrospect, identifying the original occasion for which the essay was written, and weaving together the various reflections into some kind of meaningful whole. Together the essays - some dating back two decades, some from this past year - form a kind of intellectual autobiography.