A Peculiar People: The Church As Culture in a Post-Christian Society - Brossura

Clapp, Rodney

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0830819908 ISBN 13: 9780830819904

Casa editrice: IVP Academic, 1996

Riassunto

Looks at the Christian faith as a subculture within modern society at large

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Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically oriented, consumer-based culture, Christianity has become largely irrelevant. The solution is not to sentimentally capitulate to the way things are. Nor is it to retrench in an effort to regain power and influence as the sponsor of Western civilization. What is needed is for Christians to reclaim our heritage as a peculiar people, as unapologetic followers of the Way. Within the larger pluralistic world, we need to become a sanctified, subversive culture that develops Christian community as a truly alternative way of life. Christians must learn to live the story and not just to restate it. Writing inclusively with considerable verve, Clapp offers a keen analysis of the church and its ministry as we face a new millennium.

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• Editore: IVP Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0830819908
• ISBN 13: 9780830819904
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 251