Contending for the Faith: The Church's Engagement with Culture / Edition 1

by Ralph C. Wood

Overview

In this book Ralph Wood calls for churches to offer a sustained an unapologetically Christian witness to a postmodern world. Wood carefully chronicles how the church is watching the complete destruction of post-Christian institutions and practices that once shaped human character toward fulfillment in goods larger than humanity's own self-interest - the chief of these being the worship and service of God. Wood contends that Christian existence can never be taken for granted, and so the church itself must seek to create a Christian culture that offers the world a drastic alternative to its own cultureless existence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780918954862
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	03/26/2003
Series:	Provost Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ralph C. Wood is University Professor of Theology and Literature Emeritus at Baylor University. He is the author of Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South and Literature and Theology.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Crisis Afflicting Church and Culture Alike

2. A Neo-Conservative Alternative

3. A Neo-Liberal Alternative

4. The Inadequacy of the Evangelical Engagement with Culture

5. The Challenge Facing the Church's Colleges

6. Creating a Christian Educational Culture

7. Christian Skepticism vs. Religious Sentimentality

8. The Ugly, the Beautiful, and the Holy in Christian Worship

9. A Christian Regard for Romance in an Eroticized World

10. The Outward Faithfulness of Inward Christian Piety

Conclusion

Notes

Index

What People are Saying About This

Ralph Wood gifts us with this powerful book... He forcefully engages our confused culture and helps us face the challenges of being God's people.

Stanley Hauerwas

Ralph Wood gifts us with this powerful book... He forcefully engages our confused culture and helps us face the challenges of being God's people.

Mark Noll

Ralph Wood's clarity, passion, and integrity as an essayist are justly renowned. What a feat for should and mind. This is intellectual edification of absolutely the best kind.

Editorial Reviews

Ralph Wood's clarity, passion, and integrity as an essayist are justly renowned. What a feat for should and mind. This is intellectual edification of absolutely the best kind.

—Mark Noll, McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College

Ralph Wood gifts us with this powerful book… He forcefully engages our confused culture and helps us face the challenges of being God's people.

—Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School

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