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The Church in an Age of Secular Mysticisms (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #6)
Why Spiritualities without God Fail to Transform Us
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eBook - ePub
The Church in an Age of Secular Mysticisms (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #6)
Why Spiritualities without God Fail to Transform Us
About this book
How Do You Minister to People Who Are Spiritual but Not Religious?
Post-Christian life and society do not eliminate a desire for the transcendent; rather, they create an environment for new and divergent spiritual communities and practices to flourish. We are flooded with spiritualities that appeal to human desires for nonreligious personal transformation. But many fail to deliver because they fall into the trap of the self.
In the last book of the Ministry in a Secular Age series, leading practical theologian Andrew Root shows the differences between these spiritualities and authentic Christian transformation. He explores the dangers of following or adapting these reigning mysticisms and explains why the self has become so important yet so burdened with guilt--and how we should think about both.
To help us understand our confusing cultural landscape, he maps spiritualities using twenty of the best memoirs from 2015 to 2020 in which "secular mystics" promote their mystical and transformational pathways. Root concludes with a more excellent way--even a mysticism--centered on the theology of the cross that pastors and leaders can use to form their own imaginations and practices.
Post-Christian life and society do not eliminate a desire for the transcendent; rather, they create an environment for new and divergent spiritual communities and practices to flourish. We are flooded with spiritualities that appeal to human desires for nonreligious personal transformation. But many fail to deliver because they fall into the trap of the self.
In the last book of the Ministry in a Secular Age series, leading practical theologian Andrew Root shows the differences between these spiritualities and authentic Christian transformation. He explores the dangers of following or adapting these reigning mysticisms and explains why the self has become so important yet so burdened with guilt--and how we should think about both.
To help us understand our confusing cultural landscape, he maps spiritualities using twenty of the best memoirs from 2015 to 2020 in which "secular mystics" promote their mystical and transformational pathways. Root concludes with a more excellent way--even a mysticism--centered on the theology of the cross that pastors and leaders can use to form their own imaginations and practices.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Read before Using (Don’t Skip)
- 1. New Mystics without God: Closed World Structures and Memoirists
- 2. When Dogs Bark during Paris Lockdown: Meet the Magnificent Jean-Jacques
- 3. Performing Selves Are So Guilty: Why Mysticism and Guilt Are Back
- 4. When the Everyday Houses a Mysticism without God
- 5. The [Bleeping] Triangles Are Everywhere: How Triangulated Dilemmas and Conflicts Map the Mysticism of a Secular Age
- 6. Mystical Memoirists: Mapping the Spiritual Pathways of a Secular Age
- 7. Why Not All Mysticisms Are Equal: Welcome to a Smooth, Pornographic World Obsessed with Action
- 8. Why Passivity Is the Path
- 9. The Headless Man of Shadows: Into Negativity
- 10. When a Late-Night Talk Leads to Deconversion: Or, How We Keep from Hating the World
- Index
- Back Cover