Peculiar People The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society

Name: Peculiar People The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society
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ISBN: 9780830819904

ISBN-10: 0830819908

ISBN-13: 9780830819904

Edition: 1996

Authors: Rodney Clapp

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Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year!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…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 11/12/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 251
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Where I'm Writing From



The Church as Unchurch: How Christians Became Useless



The Church as Private Club: Irrelevant for Constantine's Sake



The Church as Nation-State: Why America Is Not the Issue



The Church as Type: Why Christians Should Thank God for the Culture Wars



The Church as Church: Practicing the Politics of Jesus



The Church as Worshiping Community: Welcome to the (Real) World



The Church as Parade: The Politics of Liturgy



The Church as Listening Community: The Performance of Scripture



The Church as World: On the Faithfulness of Pagans



The Church as Mission & Message: Evangelism After Constantine



The Church as a Way of Life: Liturgy After the Liturgy



The Church as a Community of Friends: About Beginning Where We Already Are


Notes


Index