The Wild Gospel: Bringing Truth to LifeA prophetic challenge to the Western church. The Christian faith is always subversive to the dominant world view. Jesus overturned every assumption which stopped people experiencing the living reality of God - the heart of truth. Sadly, the Western world has reduced "truth" to the merely rational, and then discarded it as inadequate. In Africa, and other parts of the world where God's truth has never been straitjacketed in this way, the church is characterised by a joy now absent in the West. Western culture has limited what we can believe and receive. Can we: Burst free from this restrictive secular framework? Learn not only to know truth, but to feel it, and live it? Live our faith in such a way that it becomes real to those around us? Alison Morgan shows that Jesus lived free from the culturally imposed norms which restrict our understanding of truth. Examining church history, prophecy past and present, the state of our culture and of the church today, and drawing on personal experience and the experience of others, Alison blends analysis and imagination, history and poetry in this prophetic challenge to Western Christians. |
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User Review - kxmccallum - LibraryThingMs. Morgan is truly an astute and deep thinker. Her extensive bibliography reads like the "Who's Who" of Christian thought and history. The first part of the book which concerns history is well ... Read full review
Contents
Jesus and the individual | |
a new vision | |
The gospel in history | |
assessing a culture | |
danger and opportunity | |
Seizing the moment | |
A gospel for our times | |
living in the power of | |
living in the love of the Father | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Wild Gospel: Bringing Truth to Life |
| Author | Alison Morgan |
| Publisher | Monarch Books, 2012 |
| ISBN | 0857211633, 9780857211637 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Ministry / General |
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