The Coming Pagan Utopia: Christian Witness in Tough Times - Softcover

Peter Jones; E. Calvin Beisner; Joseph Boot; Michael Brown; Pamela Frost; Dennis Johnson; Janet Mefferd; John West; Thaddeus Williams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985295031 ISBN 13: 9780985295035

Publisher: Main Entry Editions, 2014

Synopsis

This volume is a compendium of lectures given at the 2013 truthXchange Think Tank. It discusses the differences between the utopias created by Oneist spirituality and the "eu-topia" that God has planned from before time. Back Cover Copy: "Do your friends say they are "spiritual, but not religious"? Are they seized by utopian hopes that fire their imagination and drive their personal behavior, business and politics? Such Oneist utopian visions can be found in the Green Movement, in radical sexual agendas in a total acceptance of Darwinian Evolution, and in Eastern mystical movements, among others. The ethic of all Oneist utopias depends on the elimination of the first, all-defining statement of the Christian Creed: "I believe in God the Father, Maker of heaven and earth." Since all of these movements insist that human structures and authorities take the qualities that only God himself possesses, they are doomed to become dystopias. In this collection of lectures, the authors analyze a variety of current utopian visions that inspire false hopes in today's culture, as well as presenting the true hopes God offers humanity. By showing the emptiness of human utopias and the glorious truth that only God's final "eu-topia" offers, these articles will equip Christians to understand false hopes and to live out the truth of the sure hope Christ offers.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. E. Calvin Beisner is Founder of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. A former Christian college & seminary professor, author of over ten books and hundreds of articles, and a popular speaker, Cal has testified as an expert witness in the US Senate and House of Representatives. Rev. Joe Boot is an apologist,author, & senior pastor of Westminster Chapel in Toronto and founder of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity. He served as an associate pastor with Christ Church in Fulham, London UK and with Ravi Zacharias as an apologist and as Canadian Director of RZIM. Dr. Michael Brown is the founder of FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, NC and host of the talk radio show, The Line of Fire. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from New York University and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at many seminaries. His twenty-two books include A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been and The Real Kosher Jesus: Revealing the Mysteries of the Hidden Messiah. Pamela Frost has a Master s Degree in Fine Arts (MFA) and has done research, writing, and speaking on the rising influence of neo-paganism on the culture and church and has spoken at all but one of the truthXchange Think Tanks. She also contributed the chapter, Pagan Contemplative Techniques to Dr. Jones compendium volume On Global Wizardry: Techniques of Pagan Spirituality and a Christian Response. Rev. Dr. Peter Jones (BD, Gordon Divinity School, ThM, Harvard Divinity School, PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is the Director of truthXchange, and Scholar in Residence at Westminster Seminary California. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America, he taught at the Reformed Seminary in Aix-en-Provence, France for seventeen years and at Westminster for eleven years. His books include The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back, Spirit Wars, Capturing the Pagan Mind, The God of Sex and One or Two. Rev. Dr. Dennis E. Johnson (MDiv, ThM, Westminster Theological Seminary; PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is professor of practical theology at Westminster Seminary California. He is a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America and has written The Message of Acts in the History of Redemption, Triumph of the Lamb: A Commentary on Revelation, Let s Study Acts, and Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures. He wrote the notes on Hebrews in the Reformation Study Bible, and those on Revelation in the ESV Study Bible and edited Heralds of the King: Christ-Centered Sermons in the Tradition of Edmund P. Clowney. Janet Mefferd hosts The Janet Mefferd Show, a radio talk show that takes a distinctively Christ-centered look at the news and events of the day, both in the church and in the world. A former news and religion reporter and editor for newspapers including The Dallas Morning News and the Daily Herald, Janet also has more than twenty years of Christian broadcasting experience, with her career taking her from Alaska to Chicago to Dallas. Dr. John West is Vice President of Discovery Institute, where he also is Associate Director of its Center for Science and Culture. He holds a PhD in Government from Claremont Graduate University and formerly chaired the Department of Political Science at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including Darwin Day in America, The Politics of Revelation and Reason, The Theology of Welfare, and the C.S. Lewis Readers Encyclopedia. Rev. Dr. Thaddeus Williams (PhD, Free Univ. of Amsterdam) teaches theology and philosophy and is a teaching pastor at TerraNova Church. He is passionate to see the church experience a Re:Reformation" centered on the supreme Triune God of the Bible.

About this edition

• Publisher: Main Entry Editions
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0985295031
• ISBN 13: 9780985295035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Peter Jones
• Illustrator: Sarah Sisco