A Peculiar People: The Church As Culture in a Post-Christian Society

Let's face it, Christians are outsiders in today's pluralistic society. How can we still make an impact on contemporary culture? By truly living the gospel, and not just preaching it. Clapp's keen analysis of the church's ministry will show you how developing Christian community as an alternative lifestyle can make a difference now and in the coming millennium. 276 pages, softcover from InterVarsity.

The church's role in Western culture currently is undergoing a profound redefinition. What does it mean to be the church or a Christian in the postmodern age? Clapp (Families at the Crossroads) describes the confusion American Christians, and particularly evangelical Christians, feel as accustomed religious roles and influences change. Clapp explores the impact of the "culture wars" on the church and, while critical of the methods of many of the evangelical "warriors," sees redeeming value in many of the assertions they make about a distinctive Christian way of life. Clapp redefines liturgy, social ethics and especially evangelism and missions for a postmodern church whose locus is not the individual but the faith community. Clapp offers a refreshing and reforming evangelical perspective to the church and culture debate. Clapp argues that evangelicanism has too often focused on the salvation of the individual to the exclusion of the development of community. He here contends that for the church to be a dynamic institution it must recognize its historical tensions and move beyond them to establish community. (Nov.)

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