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Embracing True Christianity The Need for Evangelical Self-Examination in Our Denominations and Churches
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
Rebekah Berndt • We are all cells in God's body
The Elder’s pastoral experience was sure testimony that even in modernity and its immanent frame, the acting God could not be shut out. The Elder’s ministry revealed that modern liberal theology was misguided in seeing the immanent frame as closed to transcendence.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
Our current intellectual and cultural crisis demands a sense of solidarity and common humanity that is intrinsic to the Christian faith, and we should recover the early church’s spirit of passionate engagement with culture based on the mystery of the incarnation.
Jens Zimmermann • Incarnational Humanism: A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the World (Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology)
To put it another way, unless our apologetic proclamation begins from revelation, we have conceded the game to modernity.
James K. A. Smith • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
For us in the West, this means rejecting the deforming practices of Western Naturalism and Evangelical Gnosticism, both of which see the American Dream as the goal for this life, practices that include:
Kelly M. Kapic • A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries
