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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.
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