Slow Church – Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus

C. Christopher Smith, John Pattison, Jonathan Wilson–hartgrov (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

247 Seiten

2014
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4114-1 (ISBN)

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In today's fast-food world, Christianity can seem outdated or archaic. The temptation becomes to pick up the pace and play the game. But Chris Smith and John Pattison invites us to leave franchise faith behind and enter the kingdom of God, where people know each other well and love one another as Christ loves the church.

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Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church?
The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often fail to notice how quickly we're capitulating, in the structures and practices of our churches, to a culture of unreflective speed, dehumanizing efficiency and dis-integrating isolationism.
In the beginning, the church ate together, traveled together and shared in all facets of life. Centered as they were on Jesus, these seemingly mundane activities took on their own significance in the mission of God. In Slow Church, Chris Smith and John Pattison invite us to leave franchise faith behind and enter into the ecology, economy and ethics of the kingdom of God, where people know each other well and love one another as Christ loved the church.

Chris Smith is editor of The Englewood Review of Books and a member of the Englewood Christian Church community on the urban Near Eastside of Indianapolis. John Pattison is managing editor of CONSPIRE magazine. Previously he served as deputy editor of the Burnside Writers Collective. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, he is the coauthor of Besides the Bible. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (M.Div., Duke Divinity School) is director of the School for Conversion in Durham, North Carolina, where he is a member of the Rutba House new monastic community. He is the author of To Baghdad and Beyond and coauthor of Inhabiting the Church: Biblical Wisdom for a New Monasticism. He is also the coeditor of School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism. Catch up with him at newmonasticism.org.

Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Introduction

1 A Theological Vision for Slow Church

FIRST COURSE: ETHICS

2 Terroir: Taste and See

3 Stability: Fidelity to People and Place

4 Patience: Entering into the Suffering of Others

SECOND COURSE: ECOLOGY

5 Wholeness: The Reconciliation of All Things

6 Work: Cooperating with God?s Reconciling Mission

7 Sabbath: The Rhythm of Reconciliation

THIRD COURSE: ECONOMY

8 Abundance: The Economy of Creation

9 Gratitude: Receiving the Good Gifts of God

10 Hospitality: Generously Sharing God?s Abundance

11 Dinner Table Conversation as a Way of Being Church

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Recommended Reading

Notes

Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8308-4114-8 / 0830841148
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4114-1 / 9780830841141
Zustand	Neuware