Churches and the Crisis of Decline – A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age
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Churches and the Crisis of Decline – A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age

Churches and the Crisis of Decline – A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age


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A Rich Vision for the Church's Future Congregations often seek to combat the crisis of decline by using innovation to produce new resources. But leading practical theologian Andrew Root shows that the church's crisis is not in the loss of resources; it's in the loss of life–and that life can only return when we remain open to God's encountering presence. This book addresses the practical form the church must take in a secular age. Root argues the church must be a waiting community that recognizes that the only way for it to find life is to stop seeing the church as the star of its own story. Instead of resisting decline, congregations must remain open to divine action. Root offers a rich vision for the church's future that moves away from an obsession with relevance and resources and toward the living God.

Table of Contents:
Contents 1. When the Church Becomes a Pub, and the Immanent Frame Our Map 2. Brother-Trouble and Meeting the Exorcist's Son: The Beginning of Karl Barth 3. A Funeral for a Church–A Funeral That Remakes a Church 4. An Apple Tree and the Incoherence of quot;God Is Godquot; 5. The Church Can't Know How to Find God 6. The Church Is Not the Star of Its Own Story 7. Welcome to Crisis Mode 8. Wedding Blunders and Brotherly Love 9. Say Goodbye to Being and Give Me More Busyness 10. A Shady Obituary and the Need to Wait 11. Waiting Sucks but Resonance Is Life 12. Waiting Is Living: The Church and Resonance 13. When Mozart Goes Straight Into You and Through You 14. Pietism and Its Discontents: A Dialectical Escape from Individualism and Religion 15. A True Ghost Story and the Birth of Watchwords 16. Getting Real with a Dialectical Demand 17. Deepening the Dialectic: Avoiding Sledgehammering the Ceiling Index

About the Author :
Andrew Root (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books, including Faith Formation in a Secular Age, The Pastor in a Secular Age, The Congregation in a Secular Age, and The End of Youth Ministry? Root is also the coauthor (with Kenda Creasy Dean) of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781540964816
  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1540964817
  • Publisher Date: 29 Mar 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 436 gr


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