Western Culture in Gospel Context: Towards the Conversion of the West: Theological Bearings for Mission and Spirituality - Couverture rigide

Kettle, David J

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498213510 ISBN 13 : 9781498213516

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

Approaching us in sovereign freedom, God comes alive to us, we come alive to God, and all creation comes alive as a sign pointing to God. In the gospel of Jesus Christ, God gives and discloses himself in this immediate way as our ultimate context and host, within the provisional medium of creation. This life-giving gospel is met by blindness, however, among those who live today in a collapsing Western culture. This is because their imaginative world is shaped by habitual assumptions and practices that lie--largely unacknowledged--deep within that culture, and that preclude openness to the gospel. Moreover, Western Christians themselves widely share these assumptions, betraying the gospel into cultural captivity. God calls for the conversion of Western culture to the living gospel. Crucially this must include, as Lesslie Newbigin recognized, a repentance from modern Western assumptions about knowledge. Part One explores seeking, knowing, and serving God, as providing a true paradigm for understanding all human enquiry, knowledge, and action. Part Two examines ten resulting "hot spots" where conversion from prevailing cultural assumptions is vital for authentic mission to Western culture.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Kettle is Co-ordinator of The Gospel and Our Culture Network in Great Britain. He is the author of Beyond Tragic Spirituality: Victimhood and Christian Hope (2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498213510
• ISBN 13: 9781498213516
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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