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    Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age

    By Alan Noble

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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 inherently disruptive: 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIVP Books
    Release dateJul 17, 2018
    ISBN9780830881093
    Author

    Alan Noble

    Alan Noble (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University. He has written for the Atlantic, Vox, The Gospel Coalition, Christianity Today, and First Things. He is also the author of Disruptive Witness and You Are Not Your Own.

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      Meditations on applications of the lessons of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age to Christian faith in modern America.The author distills many of the primary lessons from A Secular Age: the "optionalization" of faith, the development of the buffered self, etc., and also spoke of the siren song of modern consumerism and the constant distractions of the age. The author makes a case for living the faith as a disruptive witness: no longer content presenting Christianity as but one option for lifestyle among many, to take its claims seriously and to live like it, and attempts to find some ways forward.His analysis and application of Taylor is excellent. I appreciated his concern regarding how the Gospel and church are presented to people in terms of what works in marketing, with kitsch, or in any other way that makes the Gospel look like just one option among many in the modern marketplace. His focus on practices which are countercultural - to cease distraction, at least at times, for prayer, service, and devotion, to really mean what is prayed, sung, and preached, etc., are beneficial. At times the Reformed/Calvinist inclinations of the authors are made evident, and that must be kept in mind. Nevertheless, a work which deserves the high regard it is receiving in many places. Worth consideration.**--galley received as part of early review program

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