The Pastor in a Secular Age: Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
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:In Faith Formation in a Secular Age , the first book in his Ministry in a Secular Age trilogy, Andrew Root offered an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulated how faith can...
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:In Faith Formation in a Secular Age, the first book in his Ministry in a Secular Age trilogy, Andrew Root offered an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulated how faith can be formed in our secular age. In The Pastor in a Secular Age, Root explores how this secular age has impacted the identity and practice of the pastor, obscuring his or her core vocation: to call and assist others into the experience of ministry.
Using examples of pastors throughout history--from Augustine and Jonathan Edwards to Martin Luther King Jr. and Nadia Bolz-Weber--Root shows how pastors have both perpetuated and responded to our secular age. Root turns to Old Testament texts and to the theology of Robert Jenson to explain how pastors can regain the important role of attending to people's experiences of divine action, offering a new vision for pastoral ministry today.
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- Catalogue Code 526860
- Product Code 9780801098475
- ISBNÂ 0801098475
- EANÂ 9780801098475
- Pages 320
- Department Academic
- Category Church
- Sub-Category General
- Publisher Baker Academic
- Publication Date Jun 2019
- Sales Rank 60860
- Dimensions 228 x 152 x 20mm
- Weight 0.439kg
Andrew Root
Andrew Root (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of youth and family ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. A former Young Life staffworker, he has served in churches and social service agencies as a youth outreach associate and a gang prevention counselor. He is the author of Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategic Influence to a Theology of Incarnation and Relationships Unfiltered: Help for Youth Workers, Volunteers, and Parents on Creating Authentic Relationships.
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- :<b>contents<br><br></b>introduction<br><b>part 1: Welcome To The Pastoral Malaise<br></b>1. A Historical Map Of The Pastor In Our Secular Age<br>2. The Lifting Fog Of Enchantment: Thomas Becket And Pastoring In A Disenchanted Age<br>3. Keeping Enchantment From Flaring Up: Pastoring To Private People<br>4. The Force Field Of The Buffer: Augustine And Pastoring To Selves<br>5. When Ordinary Life Becomes So Much More Than Ordinary: Jonathan Edwards And Pastoring To Those Who Don't Care<br>6. When A Pastor Was America's Greatest Celebrity: Henry Ward Beecher And Pastoring By Personality<br>7. The Pastor As Chaplain Of A Secular Age: Harry Emerson Fosdick And Pastoring At The End Of The Denomination<br>8. When Purpose Becomes Mine And Authenticity Becomes King: Rick Warren And Pastoring In A Post-durkheimian Age<br><b>bridge: Winter Lectures In Paris<br></b>9. Foucault And The Rise Of Pastoral Power<br><b>part 2: The God Who Is A Ministering Pastor<br></b>10. The Weird God Of Israel Who Arrives<br>11. Encountering A Speaking God Who Identifies With Events<br>12. A Run Into The Wild: Meeting The Ministering God Who Sees<br>13. Say My Name, Say My Name: The God Of Exodus<br>14. When Dry Bones Live Again: The God Of Resurrection<br>15. Invisible Gorillas And The Practice Of Prayer<br>index
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