The past half century in which American cultural values have
shifted has resulted in a large loss of strength and confidence
among congregations, along with a host of other voluntary
association organizations. Our culture is currently caught in a
search for a new balance between freedom and equality, between the
focus on personal liberties (the “I”) and the common good (the
“We”). Now experiencing the consequences of an excessive
over-attention to the individual, the self, the narrative of the
Christian faith and the role of the congregation, with its focus on
shared creation and the critical need for community, are needed now
more than ever. Tara Isabella Burton names three challengers to
this sense of communal congregational life as competing “civil
religions:” the social justice movement, techno-utopianism, and
atavism. The voice that is missing belongs to congregations which
carry the antidote to the self-centeredness of the competing civil
religions. Congregations are about God (a power outside and beyond
the self) and a conviction about the importance of the common good.
This book will challenge congregations to be countercultural and
reclaim their institutional purpose at this critical moment in our
history.
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