GloboChrist (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
GloboChrist (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

Author: Carl Raschke

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1441210687

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The information age has not only interconnected the world but has also shrunk it. This global dynamic impacts Christianity, especially the Great Commission. How do believers make disciples of all nations in this digital world of religious diversity? Carl Raschke, author of the acclaimed The Next Reformation, answers such questions in GloboChrist. He explores the impact of globalization, postmodernism, and information technology on missions and evangelism, as well as the role that Christianity plays in an increasingly pluralistic world. In short, he helps Christians respond to the tectonic shifts of the twenty-first century. This third volume in the well-received Church and Postmodern Culture series is relevant to students, pastors, and all who care about the future of the church.

Globochrist
Globochrist

Author: Carl Raschke

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 9781441259424

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A leading postmodern thinker discusses the church's need to reconsider the Great Commission in light of globalization and the spread of technology with specific strategies for meeting current challenges.

Postmodern Times
Postmodern Times

Author: Gene Edward Veith (Jr.)

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0891077685

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The cultural landscape is now made up of diverse "communities"--feminists, gays, neo-conservatists, African-Americans, pro-lifers--who seem to have no common frame of reference by which to communicate with each other. Veith offers Christians instructions as to how they can respond to these varied groups.

The Culture of Interpretation
The Culture of Interpretation

Author: Roger Lundin

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780802806369

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This book offers a broad-ranging account of contemporary American culture, the complex network of symbols, practices, and beliefs at the heart of our society. Lundin explores the historical background of some of our "postmodern" culture's central beliefs and considers their crucial ethical and theological implications.

The Next Reformation
The Next Reformation

Author: Carl Raschke

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0801027519

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Demonstrates how to reconcile postmodernism with Christian faith.

Above All Earthly Pow'rs
Above All Earthly Pow'rs

Author: David F. Wells

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2006-08

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0802824552

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In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.

The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
The Economy of Desire (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

Author: Daniel M. Jr. Bell

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1441240411

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In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy. Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in terms of how desire is shaped, he casts the conflict as one between different disciplines of desire. He engages the work of two important postmodern philosophers, Deleuze and Foucault, to illuminate the nature of the postmodern world that the church currently inhabits. Bell then considers how the global economy deforms desire in a manner that distorts human relations with God and one another. In contrast, he presents Christianity and the tradition of the works of mercy as a way beyond capitalism and socialism, beyond philanthropy and welfare. Christianity heals desire, renewing human relations and enabling communion with God.

Fieldwork in Theology (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Fieldwork in Theology (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

Author: Christian Scharen

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1493400266

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In this addition to the acclaimed The Church and Postmodern Culture series, leading practical theologian Christian Scharen examines the relationship between theology and its social context. He engages with social theorist Pierre Bourdieu to offer helpful theoretical and theological grounding to those who want to reflect critically on the faith and practice of the church, particularly for those undertaking ministry internships or fieldwork assignments. As Scharen helps a wide array of readers to understand the social context of doing theology, he articulates a vision for the church's involvement with what God is doing in the world and provides concrete examples of churches living out God's mission.

Who's Afraid of Relativism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Who's Afraid of Relativism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

Author: James K. A. Smith

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1441245766

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Following his successful Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? leading Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, and Robert Brandom. Many Christians view relativism as the antithesis of absolute truth and take it to be the antithesis of the gospel. Smith argues that this reaction is a symptom of a deeper theological problem: an inability to honor the contingency and dependence of our creaturehood. Appreciating our created finitude as the condition under which we know (and were made to know) should compel us to appreciate the contingency of our knowledge without sliding into arbitrariness. Saying "It depends" is not the equivalent of saying "It's not true" or "I don't know." It is simply to recognize the conditions of our knowledge as finite, created, social beings. Pragmatism, says Smith, helps us recover a fundamental Christian appreciation of the contingency of creaturehood. This addition to an acclaimed series engages key thinkers in modern philosophy with a view to ministry and addresses the challenge of relativism in a creative, original way.