Christ Meets Culture

Christ Meets Culture
Author: Jair Fernandes de Melo Santos
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2020-07-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725274612

How does Christ meet, engage, change, challenge, dialogue, interact with, and bridge cultures? What is the role of the gospel in transforming ethics and culture? These daunting questions guide the present investigation about Evangelical Christianity in Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world. This book critiques the quantitative and qualitative growth of Evangelical Christianity in Brazil and presents tools for studying the global south and other cultures. Indeed, sociocultural factors play a significant role in the translation of the gospel and may work as bridges and/or barriers within the cultural and religious milieu of the largest country in Latin American. Particularly, four traits impacts the preaching of the Christian message in Brazil, namely: cordiality, religiosity, the Brazilian way of coping, and collectivism. Through oral history methodology, and literature review, this book evaluates how biblically sound translation happens through the Brazilian Baptist Convention as suggested by key leadership writings, practices, and memoirs. This work features an overview of the history of Brazilian Christianity, including its Animistic background, African-Brazilian religious influences, the present Pentecostal majority, and the challenge of Neopentecostalism, in an era of music, TV, and social media.

Christ and Culture in Dialogue

Christ and Culture in Dialogue
Author: Angus J. L. Menuge
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780570042730

Divided into three sections, this book illustrates how Christ and Christian faith affect worship, evangelism, and social issues.

Christ and Culture

Christ and Culture
Author: H. Richard Niebuhr
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1956-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0061300039

This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist who is considered Niebuhr’s contemporary successor, poses the challenge of being true to Christ in a materialistic age to an entirely new generation of Christian readers.

Christ and Culture Revisited

Christ and Culture Revisited
Author: D. A. Carson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802867383

Called to live in the world, but not to be of it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have become? In this award-winning book -- now in paperback and with a new preface -- D. A. Carson applies his masterful touch to that problem. After exploring the classic typology of H. Richard Niebuhr with its five Christ-culture options, Carson offers an even more comprehensive paradigm for informing the Christian worldview. More than just theoretical, Christ and Culture Revisited is a practical guide for helping Christians untangle current messy debates about living in the world.

Crossing Cultures with Jesus

Crossing Cultures with Jesus
Author: Katie J. Rawson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2015-11-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830898921

You can be a missionary by crossing an ocean or by crossing the street. Filled with compelling stories, practical resources and relational tools, this guide from veteran crosscultural minister Katie Rawson shows how we can witness the way Jesus did, entering into people's worlds and drawing them into God-centered community.

Meet Generation Z

Meet Generation Z
Author: James Emery White
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493406434

Move over Boomers, Xers, and Millennials; there's a new generation--making up more than 25 percent of the US population--that represents a seismic cultural shift. Born approximately between 1993 and 2012, Generation Z is the first truly post-Christian generation, and they are poised to challenge every church to rethink its role in light of a rapidly changing culture. From the award-winning author of The Rise of the Nones comes this enlightening introduction to the youngest generation. James Emery White explains who this generation is, how it came to be, and the impact it is likely to have on the nation and the faith. Then he reintroduces us to the ancient countercultural model of the early church, arguing that this is the model Christian leaders must adopt and adapt if we are to reach members of Generation Z with the gospel. He helps readers rethink evangelistic and apologetic methods, cultivate a culture of invitation, and communicate with this connected generation where they are. Pastors, ministry leaders, youth workers, and parents will find this an essential and hopeful resource.

A Peculiar People

A Peculiar People
Author: Rodney R. Clapp
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996-11-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830819904

Rodney Clapp asks and answers the question, How can the church provide a significant alternative to the culture in which it is embedded?

Christianity and Culture

Christianity and Culture
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1960
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780156177351

Two long essays: "The Idea of a Christian Society" on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.

Transforming Culture

Transforming Culture
Author: Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1998-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0801021782

Lingenfelter sets out a model for understanding the workings of a society and then applies this model to conflicts missionaries and nationals often face over economic and social issues. He makes the second edition more accessible than the first by clarifying concepts, adding case studies, and reducing the book's length. October '98 publication date.

Christ and Culture

Christ and Culture
Author: K. Schilder
Publisher: Lucerna: Crts Publications
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780995065901

In a bold and incisive manner, Dr. Klaas Schilder deals with thechallenging subject of therelationship between Jesus Christ and culture. He thus makeshis readers aware of the all-embracing significance of Christ for Christian thought and action."