Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
Noble, Alan
ISBN 10: 083084483X ISBN 13: 9780830844838
Published by IVP, 2018
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2018 WORLD Magazine Book of the Year―Accessible Theology
2018 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
★ Publishers Weekly Starred review
We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits―and devices―that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age"―an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible.
Drawing on Taylor's work, Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people's lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherentlydisruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below.
In this book Noble lays out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus. Disruptive Witness casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and cliché to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.
About the Author:
O. Alan Noble (PhD, Baylor) is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, a fellow at the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and author of On Getting Out of Bed, You Are Not Your Own, and Disruptive Witness. Noble has published articles at The Atlantic, The Gospel Coalition, First Things, and Christianity Today. He lives with his wife and three children in Oklahoma City.
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Title: Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a ...
Publisher: IVP
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
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