Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age Root Andrew
Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age Root Andrew Congregations often seek to combat the crisis of decline by using innovation to produce new…
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Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age Root Andrew
Congregations often seek to combat the crisis of decline by using innovation to produce new resources. Root uses two stories to frame the book: one about a church whose building becomes a pub and the other about Karl Barth. But leading practical theologian Andrew Root shows that the church's crisis is not in the loss of resources; it's in the loss of life--and that life can only return when we remain open to God's encountering presence.This book addresses the practical form the church must take in a secular age.
Instead of resisting decline, Root argues that Barth should be understood as a pastor with a deep practical theology that can help church leaders today.Churches and the Crisis of Decline pushes the church to be a waiting community that recognizes that the only way for it to find life is to stop seeing the church as the star of its own story.