Retrofuture: Rediscovering Our Roots, Recharting Our Routes - Softcover

Kelly, Gerard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 083082264X ISBN 13: 9780830822645

Publisher: Intervarsity Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Old certainties are being replaced by a tangle of choices and mind-numbing change. The future overtakes every area of our lives with intense social change. Technology is leading us into cyberspace. Electronic media threaten to turn books into historical artifacts. Postmodernism is eroding the basic idea of truth. The political world oscillates between imperialism and tribalism. Spiritual hunger is growingþbut new generations reject Christian answers for alternative spiritualities.

RetroFuture explores the bewildering complexity of life today and the responses it demands from us. How do we gain a foothold in this new cultural landscape? Where can we find the personal and social resources to outfit our journey into the future? How can we take with us the very best of past experience? Culture demands that we reroute. Survival demands that we reroot.

No intelligent Christian leader can avoid these issues. And for those who want to understand how the new generations are receiving--or rejecting--the gospel, this book is essential reading. Vibrant and engaging, Gerard Kelly proves himself an insightful observer of postmodern culture and a compelling guide who dares to step forward to embrace the new and emerging opportunities for Christian life and witness.

"New insights I have never come across in any other literature on the future. Gerard Kelly helps us to grasp the implications of waves of crashing change for our lives and churches and to find creative ways in which we can respond." Tom Sine, futurologist and author of Mustard Seed Versus McWorld

"As our global but fragmented world tumbles into cyberspace, how can we in the church understand and minister in these rapidly changing transitions? . . . Kelly's book is the best book I have read to help us . . . have a more global perspective of these changes and develop more global ministry strategies in the midst of these changes." Jimmy Long, author of Generating Hope

"If the ticket to heaven is a covered dish, the ticket to the future is Kelly's killer app book." Leonard Sweet, author of SoulTsunami

About this title

About the Author

Gerard Kelly is a poet, author, speaker and leader in youth ministry in the United Kingdom.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intervarsity Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 083082264X
• ISBN 13: 9780830822645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 237