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Theosis: Patristic Remedy for Evangelical Yearning at the Close of the Modern Age

Theosis: Patristic Remedy for Evangelical Yearning at the Close of the Modern Age

Gama, Michael Paul
Sittser, Gerald L.

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Christian LivingGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 1498299474
ISBN13: 9781498299473
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: Feb 20 2017
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Evangelicalism is reaching an inflection point. The exodus of millennials from Evangelical churches and the growth of those self-identifying as Nones, as in None of the Above, for their church affiliation, is concerning for the movement's future. Evangelical leaders offer mixed responses to this challenge--from circling the wagons to an enthusiastic Everything must change! posture. Theosis takes a different approach. Seeking to understand Evangelicalism and its origins, this book suggests that Evangelicalism is best understood as the sibling of western, Enlightenment Modernity, which served it well . . . until the modern cultural ethos began to shift dramatically toward post-modernity. In this shift, young Evangelicals--principally postmoderns themselves--are abandoning their father's Evangelicalism and its perceived linearity, hyper-rationalism, either/or exclusivity, and faith expression, too often perceived as stripped of mystery and wonder. Theosis proposes that to move forward, Evangelicalism must go back to the future, to re-engage with the patristic understanding of salvation as theosis; deification, or union with God. This radical return--and broadening of the doctrine of salvation--has begun to gain traction in Western Christendom, slowly being considered as it has always in the Christian East, as mere Christianity.

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