TY - BOOK AU - Malesic,Jonathan TI - Secret faith in the public square: an argument for the concealment of Christian identity SN - 9781587432262 (pbk.) AV - BV 4509.5 .M2563 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - Brazos Press KW - Identification (Religion) KW - Christian life KW - United States KW - History of doctrines KW - Secrecy KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Religious life and customs N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Secrecy and Christian faith in contemporary America -- Promoting secrecy in a Christian empire : Cyril of Jerusalem's discipline of the secret -- Liturgical secrecy as Cyril's defense against opportunism and imperial authority -- The secret of faith in Kierkegaard's Works of love -- How Kierkegaard's secret agape subverts bourgeois culture -- Bonhoeffer's Arkandisziplin : Christian confession in a world come of age -- The limits of Arkandisziplin and of the secular -- The secret-keeping self and Christian responsibility for the other -- The church as a community of hidden disciples -- Secret faith's fulfillment of the church's mission in America : an engagement with Hauerwas -- Epilogue: The challenge of ambiguous religious identity in Wise blood and The moviegoer ER -