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Waiting for Gospel - An Appeal to the Dispirited Remnants of Protestant "Establishment" (Paperback, New)
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Waiting for Gospel - An Appeal to the Dispirited Remnants of Protestant "Establishment" (Paperback, New)
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Synopsis: "Christianity, as faith centered in Jesus as the Christ
came to be called, got a foothold in the world, and for a vital and
vocal minority changed the world, because it proclaimed a message
that awakened men and women to possibilities for human life that
they had either lost or never entertained. That message the first
Christian evangelists (and Jesus himself, according to the record)
called euangellion--good news, gospel. For its first two or three
hundred years, Christianity was largely dependent for its existence
upon the new zest for life that was awakened in persons who heard
and were, as they felt, transformed, by that gospel; and at various
and sundry points in subsequent history the Christian movement has
found itself revitalized by the spirit of that same 'good news' in
ways that spoke to the specifics of their times and places. "The
lesson of history is clear: the challenge to all serious Christians
and Christian bodies today is not whether we can devise yet more
novel and promotionally impressive means for the transmission of
'the Christian religion' (let alone this or that denomination); it
is whether we are able to hear and to proclaim . . . gospel We do
not need statisticians and sociologists to inform us that
religion--and specifically our religion, as the dominant expression
of the spiritual impulse of homo sapiens in our geographic
context--is in decline. We do not need the sages of the new atheism
to announce in learned tomes (and on buses ) that 'God probably
does not exist.' The 'sea of faith' has been ebbing for a very long
time." --from the Introduction Endorsements: "Douglas John Hall is
a treasure, a man I have known whose intellectual depth is matched
only by his spirit of kindness. . . . So to is Waiting for Gospel.
As people continue to discuss the place of the church in North
America leaning on sociology and cultural studies, Doug Hall
reminds us that in the end it will be only theology, a lived
theology of existential depth, that will help. All the contemporary
talk of church in North America has so often failed to provide
truly unique and insightful thoughts . . . about how God's
revelation in Jesus Christ is encountering people in this context,
at this time. Waiting for Gospel propels us in that direction and
therefore shines brightly, giving the reader value upon value."
--Andrew Root Olson Baalson Associate Professor of Youth and Family
Ministry, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota Author of The
Promise of Despair: The Way of the Cross as the Way of the Church
(2010) Author Biography: Douglas John Hall is Emeritus Professor of
Christian Theology in the Faculty of Religious Studies of McGill
University in Montreal. He is the author of more than twenty-five
books, including Lighten Our Darkness (1976, 2001); Why Christian?
(1998); God and Human Suffering (1986); The Steward (1990; Wipf
& Stock, 2004); and The Messenger (Cascade Books, 2011). He has
lectured widely in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Japan,
and is the recipient of many honors, including the Distinguished
Alumnus Award of Union Theological Seminary, the Joseph Sittler
Award for Leadership in Theology, and the Order of Canada.
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