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A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society

A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society

Clapp, Rodney R.

Paperback

Religion General General Christianity

Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN10: 0830819908
ISBN13: 9780830819904
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: Nov 12 1996
Pages: 251
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
Awards: Christianity Today Book Award
  • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year

Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as sponsoring chaplains to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically oriented, consumer-based culture, Christianity has become largely irrelevant. The solution is not to sentimentally capitulate to the way things are. Nor is it to retrench in an effort to regain power and influence as the sponsor of Western civilization. What is needed is for Christians to reclaim our heritage as a peculiar people, as unapologetic followers of the Way. Within the larger pluralistic world, we need to become a sanctified, subversive culture that develops Christian community as a truly alternative way of life. Christians must learn to live the story and not just to restate it. Writing inclusively with considerable verve, Clapp offers a keen analysis of the church and its ministry as we face a new millennium.

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