Things Unseen: Churches of Christ In (and After) the Modern Age

Today Churches of Christ are a modern church in a world in which modernity is receding. This reality, probably more than any other factor, accounts for the swift and disorienting changes besetting them at the beginning of the twentieth-first century.

Can this anti-tradition tradition come to terms with its own modern tradition?

Can Churches of Christ break out of modernity's hold and engage the present age with the power of the gospel? Can they respond to the new challenges and opportunities of this 'postmodern' era?

C. Leonard Allen has served as visiting professor at Biola University, La Mirada, CA, adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and professor at Abilene Christian University. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Religion at the University of Iowa, and is the author or co-author of numerous books, including The Contemporaries Meet the Classics on Prayer, The Cruciform Church: Becoming a Cross-Shaped People in a Secular World, and Participating in God's Life: Two Crossroads for Churches of Christ.