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The Free Church and Seductive Culture

Calvin Wall Redekop

出版	Herald Press, 1970
主題	Biography & Autobiography / ReligiousSocial Science / Sociology of Religion
ISBN	08361162329780836116236
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Nz8RAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

That the Christian faith is largely finished and written off as a convincing and winsome alternative for modern man is generally accepted. But how has this come about? Why did it happen? What, if anything, can be done about it? Using historical data and several original sociological case studies, the author attempts to show that the central problem of the Christian faith as expressed in the Christian church is the capitulation to self-deception, a temptation which seduces all men and institutions. But the uniqueness and incongruity of the self-deception of the Christian church is that it lays claim to a divine perception of reality yet contradicts this divine orientation at every turn. The author proceeds to show that the only hope for a recovery of integrity and winsomeness for the Christian church and its faith-life is the institution of a "structure for accountability" is slowly evolving in the secular world, but is rejected by Christians because the acceptance of this structure would be costly, even though it promises the Christian church the opportunity to become the "free church." The incipient concept of a free church as expressed in the Anabaptists, Quakers, and other related movements tends to give the author some hope that the truly free church can actually be achieved. -Publisher