lukeprog
6th November 2006, 08:31 PM
My friend Mark is writing a book about current Christian communities of resistance, for example:
Chapter 1: The Kingdom of God and the American Dream (argues for a strong fidelity to Christ that overshadows any and all political or governmental allegiance)
Chapter 2: Rugged Individuals Need a Hug (deconstructing individualism and calls for a retrieval of a robust communitarian ecclesiology…a call to interdependency, mutual accountability, and other junk like that)
Chapter 3: The Consumption of Faith and the Faith of Consumption (challenges unfettered consumer capitalism and the commodification of Christianity and calls us to a life of self-reflective simplicity and obedience to Christ)
Chapter 4: Why Pragmatism Doesn’t Work (pragmatism is over-rated. it has infected the church and has therefore destroyed our soteriology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology—in other words, the Kingdom of God doesn’t always make a lot of sense, and we’ve opted for sense over faithfulness)
Chapter 5: Going to War with Militarism (violence is bad. Our Empire is built upon the myth of redemptive violence. Christians falsely believe in the use of military power to secure freedom, peace, and the goodlife. Instead, we must pursue freedom, peace and the good life in the Way of Christ as we resist violence nonviolently).
Do any of you know of existing, preferably small communities of authentic believers that embody any of these traits of resistance?
Many thanks for anything you think of!
Chapter 1: The Kingdom of God and the American Dream (argues for a strong fidelity to Christ that overshadows any and all political or governmental allegiance)
Chapter 2: Rugged Individuals Need a Hug (deconstructing individualism and calls for a retrieval of a robust communitarian ecclesiology…a call to interdependency, mutual accountability, and other junk like that)
Chapter 3: The Consumption of Faith and the Faith of Consumption (challenges unfettered consumer capitalism and the commodification of Christianity and calls us to a life of self-reflective simplicity and obedience to Christ)
Chapter 4: Why Pragmatism Doesn’t Work (pragmatism is over-rated. it has infected the church and has therefore destroyed our soteriology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology—in other words, the Kingdom of God doesn’t always make a lot of sense, and we’ve opted for sense over faithfulness)
Chapter 5: Going to War with Militarism (violence is bad. Our Empire is built upon the myth of redemptive violence. Christians falsely believe in the use of military power to secure freedom, peace, and the goodlife. Instead, we must pursue freedom, peace and the good life in the Way of Christ as we resist violence nonviolently).
Do any of you know of existing, preferably small communities of authentic believers that embody any of these traits of resistance?
Many thanks for anything you think of!