Paul writes – Earlier in the year I had the opportunity of spending time with the two authors of this soon to be published book – MetaVista: Exploring the Bible, the Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination by Colin Greene and Martin Robinson. I was impressed. All the more so as I listened in on the recording of an audio interview of Colin Greene by Alan Roxburgh. Presumably the interview will be made available via the Allelon website (Roxburgh Journal) in due course. Both authors have written a number of books. Greene’s, Christology in Cultural Perspective: Marking out the Horizons, while academic, appears to me just the kind of resource we need to engage with as we seek to recover the significance and importance of Christology, remixed for times such as ours. In fact, I think a remixed Christology and Pneumatology seem to me to be critically needed in the life of the church, outworked in the everyday and the ordinary.
Here’s the publishers blurb:
“The core narrative of Christianity, the book that conveys it (the Bible) and the institution of the church have been marginalised by the development of modernity and post-modernity. Strangely, post-modernity has created an opportunity for religious thinking and experience to re-enter many lives.
Yet post-modernity is not an adequate framework for thinking about life. There is therefore an opportunity for Christians to imagine what comes after and to prepare the church for a new engagement of mission with western culture.
The church, through a creative missionary imagination, can re-define western cultural life. This book sketches what such an approach might look like.
Recommendation:
'If you have a taste for the subversive, a passion for the church, a heart for biblical engagement, and an eye on the future; this book is a must-read.' Roy Searle, Northumbria Community, former President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain.
More info about the book is on the publishers website here. Not yet on the Amazon.uk site. My understanding is that the book was expected to be available from Nov. 07.
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