Above All Earthly Pow'rs : Christ in a Postmodern World,9780802829023

Above All Earthly Pow'rs : Christ in a Postmodern World

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ISBN13: 9780802829023
ISBN10: 0802829023
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-09-30
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary

The deflation of the Enlightenment worldview and rise of the post-modern mood over the last decades has altered the relation of Christian faith to culture. How, in this new situation, should the church confess Christ? "Above All Earthly Powers" paints a picture of the West in all its complexity, brilliance, and emptiness. As David F. Wells masterfully depicts it, the postmodern ethos is relativistic, individualistic, therapeutic, and yet remarkably spiritual. By placing a premium on marketing rather than truth, the evangelical church is in danger of selling authentic engagement with culture for worldly success. 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. "Above All Earthly Powers" issues a prophetic call to the evangelical church that it cannot afford to ignore.

Author Biography

David F. Wells is the Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and an ordained Congregational minister.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Introduction
1(12)
The Front Lines
5(1)
Christ and Context
6(7)
Miracles of Modern Splendor
13(47)
Outside In, Inside Out
17(8)
The Heretical Persuasion
25(6)
The Modern Revolution
31(29)
Gone with the Wind
33(15)
Hollow Chests
48(4)
Miracles of (Human) Power
52(8)
Postmodern Rebellion
60(31)
The Withering of the Enlightenment Soul
62(12)
Modernity to Postmodernity
62(5)
The Postmodern Outlooks
67(7)
No (Comprehensive) Worldview
74(10)
On Having a Worldview
74(1)
Consumer Culture/Postmodern Culture
75(4)
The Way Things Were
79(5)
No Truth
84(4)
No Purpose
88(3)
Migrations, the Banquet of Religion, and Pastiche Spirituality
91(34)
Pizza, Bagels, and Fish on Fridays
96(8)
Enchiladas, Chow Mein, and Soul Food
104(5)
The New Spiritual Quest
109(16)
The Third Stream
109(10)
The House or the Journey?
119(6)
Christ in a Spiritual World
125(52)
The New Spiritual Yearning
127(9)
An Ancient Spirituality
136(9)
A Spirituality of Postmodernity
145(10)
The Empty Landscape
146(3)
``My Own Little Voice''
149(3)
It's About Me
152(3)
Confrontation, Not Tactics
155(9)
Fragmented, Not Innocent
164(4)
Public, Not Private
168(7)
Personal, Not Impersonal
175(2)
Christ in a Meaningless World
177(56)
The Culture of Nothingness
178(16)
Bewilderment
178(3)
The Black Hole
181(3)
Suicide to Snickers
184(4)
Fear, Anxiety, and Dread
188(3)
When the Future Dies
191(3)
This Side of the Sun
194(5)
God Whispers in the Night
199(4)
God Reaches Down
203(30)
The Presence of Eternity
203(9)
Majestic Condescension
212(6)
Grace Triumphant
218(15)
Christ in a Decentered World
233(30)
An Open Future
234(8)
From Experience to Philosophy
234(4)
From Freedom to Danger
238(2)
From Providence to Bad Luck
240(2)
An Open Theology
242(9)
Libertarian and Autonomous
248(1)
Autonomous and Decentered
249(2)
Christ the Center
251(12)
Creation's Center
251(7)
The Church's Center
258(5)
Megachurches, Paradigm Shifts, and the New Spiritual Quest
263(47)
Why Do Church Differently?
268(15)
The New Seeker
269(1)
Evangelicalism Falters
269(1)
The New Marketplace
270(4)
The New Social Environment
274(3)
Old Fears
277(6)
Business as Usual
283(5)
Growing the Church
288(4)
Gated (Spiritual) Communities
288(4)
No Entry
292(18)
Birds of a Feather
293(4)
Selling the Faith
297(13)
The Day of New Beginnings
310(8)
God's Open Door
311(3)
The Call to Authenticity
314(4)
Bibliography 318(17)
Index 335

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