Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age

Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
- 2018 WORLD Magazine Book of the Year - Accessible Theology
- 2018 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
We live in a distracted, secular age.
These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habitsâ€•and devicesâ€•that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age"â€•an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible. Drawing on Taylor's work, Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people's lives.
But the gospel of Jesus is inherently disruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below. In this book Noble lays out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus.
Disruptive Witness casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and clichÃ© to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.
Country USA
Manufacturer IVP
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-07-17
Format Kindle eBook

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