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Rather than reconsidering contemporary culture in light of
secularization, much of the western church operates with a degree
of nostalgia. She has yet to fully embrace prospective, innovative
models for what form her task might take in some of Christianity's
historic heartlands. Amidst rapidly declining church membership,
contextualizing the Gospel for the contemporary West is an urgent
task for churches and Christians living in this context. This book
seeks an interdisciplinary, international, and ecumenical response
to this challenge, uniting historical, sociological, theological,
and missiological perspectives. Benefiting from recent studies in
sociology of religion, Dr. Gantenbein offers several detailed
contextual case studies before establishing correlations between
western cultural-religious characteristics and corresponding
theological affirmations. This study includes several unexpected
dimensions, including the development of a theological aesthetic in
tension with the typically Word-alone tradition of Protestantism; a
constructive reading of the book of Revelation as a source for
contemporary aesthetic missiology; reflections on a soteriology for
the postmodern era; and a proposal for an anonymous ecclesiology
within a European context where churches are viewed with growing
suspicion. With rare perspicacity, Gantenbein's study creatively
calls churches to apply renewed intellectual rigor in faithfulness
to their common purpose.
This book presents an original and dynamic reading of the
twentieth-century French sociologist and theological ethicist
Jacques Ellul. Adopting Ellul's use of 'presence' as a
hermeneutical key to understanding his work, it examines the
origins of Ellul's approach to presence in his readings of
Kierkegaard and the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, highlights the
central structural role of presence in Ellul's theological ethics,
and elucidates a crucial turning point in Ellul's theology
following a personal crisis in Ellul's faith and life. Drawing from
numerous unpublished and untranslated texts, Jacob Marques Rollison
argues that this crisis involves confrontation with a critique of
presence manifest in Ellul's reading of and engagement with Michel
Foucault. Marques Rollison distills Ellul's sociological critiques
and theological responses to this crisis, presenting Ellul's
evolving theology against the background of major shifts in French
intellectual life. In doing so, the author simultaneously calls for
renewed engagement with Ellul's prophetic thought, critically
appraises Ellul's dialectical theology and Marxist inheritances,
and develops a robustly Protestant approach to theological
communication ethics for our time.
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To Will & To Do (Paperback)
Jacques Ellul; Translated by Jacob Marques Rollison
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To Will & To Do (Hardcover)
Jacques Ellul; Translated by Jacob Marques Rollison
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Jacques Ellul (Paperback)
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