Henco van der Westhuizen

Living Belief

Theology

“In Living Belief, Douglas Ottati—through the lenses of the Apostolic and Nicene Creeds, the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Lord’s Prayer—briefly introduces an examined faith: Christian theology to all interested in how Christianity is a way of being in the world. The deliberately ambiguous title refers to the living God, to God’s aliveness in the world today. It refers to belief, to faith, to theology, a way of relating to God and all others that lives, that is alive, blossoming in its rootedness in the life-giving traditions of the Bible, the Confessions, Augustine, Calvin, Niebuhr—a giving-of-life theology in and for late modernity. The title also refers to the living of what is believed, to the embodiment of faith and theology, the enacting of relations to the God that relates to all that lives—life in its flourishing fullness. A welcoming and hospitable introduction to Christianity.”