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A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society
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A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society Trade paperback - 1996

by Rodney R. Clapp

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Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because they have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because they are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplins" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In the individualistic, technologically oriented, consumer-based culture, Christianity has become largely irrelevant. Writing inclusively with considerable verve, Clapp offer a keen analysis of the church and its ministry as we face a new miillennium.

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  • Title A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society
  • Author Rodney R. Clapp
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used Very Good
  • Pages 251
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher IVP Academic, Downers Grove
  • Date November 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 221095
  • ISBN 9780830819904 / 0830819908
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.52 x 0.77 in (20.93 x 14.02 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Evangelical
    • Topical: Home School
  • Library of Congress subjects Church, Christianity and culture
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96020803
  • Dewey Decimal Code 262

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  • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year

Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically oriented, consumer-based culture, Christianity has become largely irrelevant. The solution is not to sentimentally capitulate to the way things are. Nor is it to retrench in an effort to regain power and influence as the sponsor of Western civilization. What is needed is for Christians to reclaim our heritage as a peculiar people, as unapologetic followers of the Way. Within the larger pluralistic world, we need to become a sanctified, subversive culture that develops Christian community as a truly alternative way of life. Christians must learn to live the story and not just to restate it. Writing inclusively with considerable verve, Clapp offers a keen analysis of the church and its ministry as we face a new millennium.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/1996, Page 460
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/14/1996, Page 77

About the author

Until spring 1999, Clapp was senior editor for academic and general books at InterVarsity Press. He was formerly an associate editor for Christianity Today, and he has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Family Ministry and Marriage Partnership. His essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including Christianity Today, Regeneration Quarterly and Books and Culture. Clapp is now an editor with Brazos Press, a new imprint of Baker Book House.