Valiant for Truth - Church

While globalization is an established phenomenon, Fritz Kling was interested in how it affects the church. To that end, he interviewed church leaders in underdeveloped countries, the data from which organizes The Meeting of the Waters: 7 Global Currents That Will Propel the Future Church.

As the title of the book suggests, Paul Froese and Christopher Bader—professors of sociology at Baylor—undertake a survey of Americans' conception of God. In the introduction they comment that in their research they found one’s answers on the nature of God often reflected much about one's own personality.  

Michael J. Vlach argues in Has the Church Replaced Israel? A Theological Evaluation that “supersessionism is the view that the New Testament Church is the new and/or true Israel that has forever superseded the nation Israel as the People of God” (12).  

One of the great things about movements is that they can bring together people from diverse backgrounds for a common cause. One of the dangerous things about movements is that they can create artificial positions that undermine the integrity of institutions that have grown organically through the years.

In a ‘post’-everything age (whether it be postliberal, postconservative, postmodern, etc.), being ‘postpolitical’ is perhaps not such a bad thing for the church. Given the all-to-frequent ‘hostile takeovers’ of the church by the Christian Left and Right, it is refreshing to return to some familiar, less ‘American’ Christianity. And this is precisely what James Davison Hunter provides in his book, To Change the World.