Christian Witness in a Postmodern World

Christian Witness in a Postmodern World
Author: Harry Lee Poe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

A professor of religion asserts that the difficulties faced in communicating the gospel are as much an opportunity as they are a challenge. This book analyzes contemporary trends in American cultural life related to what those who don't attend church know about Christianity and how they think about questions of ultimate meaning.

Bible and Mission

Bible and Mission
Author: Richard Bauckham
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780801027710

This engaging study provides a new way of looking at Scripture--one that takes seriously the biblical idea of mission. Richard Bauckham shows how God identifies himself with particular individuals or people in human history in order to be known by all. He is the God of Abraham, Israel, and David and, finally, the one who acts through Jesus Christ. Bauckham applies these insights to the contemporary scene, encouraging those involved in mission to be sensitive to postmodern concerns about globalization while at the same time emphasizing the uniqueness of Christian faith. In doing so, he demonstrates the diversity of Christian faith around the world. This book will be rewarding reading for pastors, lay readers, and students of Scripture, mission, and postmodernism.

Christian Belief in a Postmodern World

Christian Belief in a Postmodern World
Author: Diogenes Allen
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780804206259

This book provides a philosophical argument for the reasonableness of Christian faith in today's world. Diogenes Allen shows how Christian belief is now being supported by scientific and philosophical principles--perhaps for the first time in 300 years.

The End of Apologetics

The End of Apologetics
Author: Myron Bradley Penner
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 144125109X

The modern apologetic enterprise, according to Myron Penner, is no longer valid. It tends toward an unbiblical and unchristian form of Christian witness and does not have the ability to attest truthfully to Christ in our postmodern context. In fact, Christians need an entirely new way of conceiving the apologetic task. This provocative text critiques modern apologetic efforts and offers a concept of faithful Christian witness that is characterized by love and grounded in God's revelation. Penner seeks to reorient the discussion of Christian belief, change a well-entrenched vocabulary that no longer works, and contextualize the enterprise of apologetics for a postmodern generation.

Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World

Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World
Author: Timothy R. Phillips
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830874729

Evangelicals are beginning to provide analyses of our postmodern society, but little has been done to suggest an effective apologetic strategy for reaching a culture that is pluralistic, consumer-oriented, and infatuated with managerial and therapeutic approaches to life. This, then, is the first book to address that vital task. In these pages some of evangelicalism's most stimulating thinkers consider three possible apologetic responses to postmodernity. William Lane Craig argues that traditional evidentialist apologetics remains viable and preferable. Roger Lundin, Nicola Creegan and James Sire find the postmodern critique of Christianity and Western culture more challenging, but reject central features of it. Philip Kenneson, Brian Walsh and J. Richard Middleton, on the other hand, argue that key aspects of postmodernity can be appropriated to defend orthodox Christianity. An essential feature are trenchent chapters by Ronald Clifton Potter, Dennis Hollinger and Douglas Webster considering issues facing the local church in light of postmodernity. The volumes editors and John Stackhouse also add important introductory essays that orient the reader to postmodernity and various apologetic strategies. All this makes for a book indispensable for theologians, a wide range of students and reflective pastors.

Christianity and the Postmodern Turn

Christianity and the Postmodern Turn
Author: Myron B. Penner
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1587431084

Addresses the promises and perils of postmodernity for the church today.

Live to Tell

Live to Tell
Author: Brad J. Kallenberg
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1587430509

Emphasizes that, in light of postmodernity, evangelism should shift to a communal focus and invite people to a new way of life. Offers both theoretical training and practical strategies.

Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church

Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church
Author: Richard Bauckham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2015-01-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1474230474

This volume is an original and important contribution to the study of the earliest Palestinian Jewish Christianity. For the first time all the evidence for the role which relatives of Jesus played in the early church is assembled and assessed. Dr. Bauckham discusses a wide range of evidence, not only from the New Testament but also from the Church Fathers, the New Testament Apocrypha, rabbinic literature and Palestinian archaeology. The letter of Jude, in particular, proves to have much to teach us about the theology of the brothers of Jesus and their circle. It illuminates their exegetical methods and their Christology and shows both to have been influential contributions to the development of early Christianity. This study shows that this neglected New Testament book is far more important for the study of early Christianity than has hitherto been recognized. By setting the letter of Jude within the context of the evidence for the role of relatives of Jesus in the early church, new insights can be revealed into the letter and early Jewish Christianity.

Above All Earthly Pow'rs

Above All Earthly Pow'rs
Author: David F. Wells
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2006-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0802824552

In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.

A Credible Witness

A Credible Witness
Author: Brenda Salter McNeil
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-08-12
Genre:
ISBN: 144299245X

Evangelist and teacher McNeil thinks evangelism that only introduces people to Jesus is incomplete. The picture is much larger than that, she claims. Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman gives the full picture of reconciliation with God and with one another.