Winning a Generation Without the Law - Couverture souple

Fraser, Bryan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1609573994 ISBN 13 : 9781609573997

Editeur : Xulon Press, 2010

Synopsis

Apostolic Christianity recognized the importance of communicating the gospel to two radically different cultures: those under the law and those without the law. Up until forty years ago, Western civilization was a culture under the law: a world that accepted the premise of a Lawgiver outside of creation who decrees absolute truth and an unchanging morality. But even though that society disappeared a generation ago, Christianity's presentation of a timeless gospel has failed to adjust to today's postmodern mindset. Winning a Generation Without the Law examines ten battles Christianity continues to regard as integral to its gospel message, but which needlessly bring the law to bear on a culture that will not tolerate it. Here is a plea for Christians to once again become wise as serpents and harmless as doves as they proclaim Christ in a 21st-century world without boundaries. Bryan Fraser is a professional forester and has previously served as a pastor, youth pastor and police chaplain. He presently ministers among the Haida First Nation in coastal British Columbia. He holds the Master of Christian Studies and Master of Divinity degrees from Regent College.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What is the Gospel? While we usually associate John Calvin with the doctrine of predestination, it is less commonly realized that he redefined how evangelicals have understood the gospel for the last 500 years. Calvin, who was a lawyer by profession, “upgraded” the apostles’ call to simply believe in the author of salvation with the additional requirement to confess the legal basis of salvation. He termed his hybridization of gospel and law "saving knowledge" and it far overshot the simplicity of the New Testament gospel. Winning a Generation Without the Law explains why Calvin's declaration of a 'minimum' doctrinal confession necessary to be saved was such an extremely slippery slope, causing theologian Adolph Harnack to lament, "The Reformation was...incapable of making any sound distinction between 'doctrine' and Gospel; in this respect falling far behind Paul" (What is Christianity?). The book explores the 21st-century fallout of evangelicalism's 'legal' gospel that requires those “without law” (1 Corinthians 9:21) to first come “under the law” before believing in Jesus. It then explains why we need to recover ten basic principles the apostles followed in exporting the gospel out of the cradle of Mosaic law into a Western culture without law. Fraser specifically focuses on what they didn't include in their "Greek" gospel and drills down to the one problem the gospel solves (hint: it's not guilt!) that actually makes Jesus Christ 'good news' for the postmodern mind.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Xulon Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1609573994
• ISBN 13: 9781609573997
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible