People of the Truth: The Power of the Worshiping Community in the Modern World
by Robert E. Webber, Rodney Clapp (Author)
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In this provocateive book, a prominent theologian and a leading Christian editor speak to all Christians who have grown mistrustful of the church's involvement in religio-political power-plays and are seeking the way home. Robert E. Webber and Rodney Clapp examine the dilemma so many Christians face--what to do if you are an enthusiast for neither the New Right nor the Old Left but still take seriously the church's social and political responsibility. 'People of the Truth' offers a biblical show more solution to this perplexing question. The authors show how American Christians have come to depend on the nation, rather than the church, as their primary instrument of social change and communal influence. They call for the church to move beyond the dead end of civil religion to affirm the authentic role of the worshiping community in effecting social change. The church should dare to lay down its life, the authors write, to give up its ill-begotten political leverage; to turn aside from success and stop counting heads (or dollars); to stand at the side of forgotten poor and oppressed; to be a sign and a witness of humanity's insufficiency and God's all-sufficiency. Drawing upon the works of many esteemed theologians and historians, the authors trace the growth of Christianity and offer a fresh apporach to the history of the church in the world. They reveal how the church's identity and vision have become confused, how they can be recovered, and how Christians--by living out their distinctive story as a worshiping community--can heal society's ills. 'People of the Truth' provides concrete examples of how the church, by realigning itself with its Christ-centered mandate, can effectively respond to such urgent problems as poverty, drug abuse, violence, pornography, AIDS, and the ever-present threat of nuclear war. Here is at once a summons and a guide for the church to become in fact what it has always been ideally: the only people charged with proclaiming this Christ . . . a people of the truth. show lessTags
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Robert E. Webber is Myers Professor of Ministry at Northern Seminary and the president of the Institute for Worship Studies
Rodney Clapp is an editor for Cascade Books. Formerly a columnist for The Christian Century, his award-winning books include A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society and Tortured Wonders: Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels. His most recent book is the novel The Second Baptism of Albert Simmel.
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 261.7 — Religion Christian organization, social work & worship Social theology and interreligious relations and attitudes Christianity and political affairs
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- BR115 .P7 .W36 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christianity Christianity Christianity in relation to special subjects
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