AncientFuture Faith Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World by Robert E

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Paints a picture of the future of the evangelical faith by showing how the early church tradition provides the resources for answering today's postmodern generation.

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In a world marked by relativism, individualism, pluralism, and the transition from a modern to a postmodern worldview, evangelical Christians must find ways to re-present the historic faith. In his provocative new work, Ancient-Future Faith, Robert E. Webber contends that present-day evangelicalism is a product of modernity. Allegiance to modernity, he argues, must be relinquished to free evangelicals to become more consistently historic. Empowerment to function in our changing culture will be found by adapting the classical tradition to our postmodern time. Webber demonstrates the implications in the key areas of church, worship, spirituality, evangelism, nurture, and mission. Webber writes, "The fundamental concern of Ancient-Future Faith is to find points of contact between classical Christianity and postmodern thought. Classical Christianity was shaped in a pagan and relativistic society much like our own. Classical Christianity was not an accommodation to paganism but an alternative practice of life.Christians in a postmodern world will succeed, not by watering down the faith, but by being a counter cultural community that invites people to be shaped by the story of Israel and Jesus." A substantial appendix explores the development of authority in the early church, an important issue for evangelicals in a society that shares many features with the Roman world of early Christians. Students, professors, pastors, and laypeople concerned with the church's effective response to a postmodern world will benefit from this paradigmatic volume. Informative tables and extensive bibliographies enhance the book's educational value.

Author Biography

Robert E. Webber is Myers Professor of Ministry at Northern Seminary, president of the Institute for Worship Studies, and emeritus professor of theology at Wheaton College. He is the author or editor of more than twenty works, a columnist for Worship Leader magazine, and an editorial consultant for Reformed Worship. Webber lives in Wheaton, Illinois.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1Setting the Stage1Paradigm Thinking2From a Modern to a Postmodern Paradigm3The Return to Classical ChristianityPart 2A Classical/Postmodern Christ4Christ Within the Paradigms of History5Christus Victor in the Apostolic Writings6The Theology of Recapitulation7Christ, the CenterPart 3A Classical/Postmodern Church8Church Within the Paradigms of History9Restoring the Theology of the Church10Recovering Our Historical ConnectionPart 4A Classical/Postmodern Worship11Worship Within the Paradigms of History12Recovering the Theology and Order of Worship13Recovering Symbolic CommunicationPart 5A Classical/Postmodern Spirituality14Spirituality Within the Paradigms of History15Classical Spirituality16Christian Spirituality in a Postmodern WorldPart 6A Classical/Postmodern Mission17Evangelism as Process18Education as Wisdom19The Church in the WorldAppendixA Classical/Postmodern AuthorityEpilogueNotesRecommended ReadingIndex

Review Quote

"The Agenda for Theology, which I attempted to set forth in 1979, is here being significantly extended by Robert Webber in 1999 in a way that is profoundly gratifying."--Thomas C. Oden, professor of theology, Drew University"With his customary lucidity and catholicity, but in a way that cuts deeper than his earlier writings, Robert Webber substantiates the vision of an anciently-rooted and forward-looking evangelicalism that marks all of his work. Ancient-Future Faith works as a narrative-oriented Christian primer and as a road map to the promise of catholic evangelicalism. For the theologically inclined, it also works as a Gadamerian exercise in the fusion of theological horizons, showing how the Christus Victor Christocentrism of ancient Christianity might reshape the faith that Christians live and claim in a postmodern context. Webber shows what it means to take seriously the character of Christian testimony as Christ-following church-formed story."--Gary Dorrien, author, The Remaking of Evangelical Theology"Evangelicalism is a vital spiritual movement but has lots of room to grow in the area of theological hermeneutics. Welcome therefore is this proposal from a senior and respected leader which draws half a dozen lessons from the early church to help evangelicals move forward into the future. Here is a faith for our time that finds in the ancient traditions the power to speak to the postmodern world. This book amounts to an introduction to Christianity from the theme of Christus Victor. It draws from Webber's own experience of growth as a hearer of God's Word and is backed up with an impressive set of end-notes, charts, and bibliography."--Clark H. Pinnock, professor of theology emeritus, McMaster Divinity College"'You can only think about the future of the faith after you have gone back to the classical tradition.' So writes Bob Webber in this book, and he has made his lifework the forward-looking appropriation of that unboundingly rich - and, most important, 'true' - generous orthodoxy. Many of us are already incalculably in his debt. Now, more than ever, with the culture wars of a dying modernity cutting deeper and more darkly into desperation and anger, all evangelicalism needs to hear him. Take up, read, pray and consider: in this direction lies the most hopeful future of our faith."--Rodney Clapp, senior editor, Prism

Details ISBN080106029X Author Robert E. Webber Language English ISBN-10 080106029X ISBN-13 9780801060298 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1999 Imprint Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group Subtitle Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World Place of Publication Ada, MI Country of Publication United States Series Ancient-Future Residence Wheaton, IL, US Birth 1927 Death 2007 Pages 240 Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title ANCIENT-FUTURE FAITH NEW/E DOI 10.1604/9780801060298 AU Release Date 1999-11-01 NZ Release Date 1999-11-01 US Release Date 1999-11-01 UK Release Date 1999-11-01 Publisher Baker Publishing Group Publication Date 1999-11-01 DEWEY 270.8829 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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