Western Culture in Gospel Context
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Western Culture in Gospel Context

Towards the Conversion of the West: Theological Bearings for Mission and Spirituality

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Western Culture in Gospel Context

Towards the Conversion of the West: Theological Bearings for Mission and Spirituality

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Cascade Books
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781610971843
9781498213516
eBook ISBN
9781630874131
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Church

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Part 1: Knowing the Gospel
  6. Chapter 1: Secular and Sacred in Contemporary Understanding
  7. Part 2: Spreading the Gospel
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 2: The Trajectory of Western Culture, Individualism, and Totalitarianism
  10. Chapter 3: The Modern Betrayal of Enquiry
  11. Chapter 4: Contemporary Demonization and Polarization
  12. Chapter 5: The Needy Consumer
  13. Chapter 6: The Tragic Sense of Life
  14. Chapter 7: Personal Fulfillment and Contemporary Spirituality
  15. Chapter 8: The ideology of Rights and Political Correctness
  16. Chapter 9: Neoliberal Capitalist Ideology
  17. Chapter 10: Public Facts and Private Values
  18. Conclusion
  19. Bibliography

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