Transforming Christian theology : for church and society / Philip Clayton in collaboration with Tripp Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clayton, Philip, 1956-

Contributor:

Fuller, Tripp.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology, Doctrinal--United States.

Theology, Doctrinal.

United States.

Church and the world.

Church.

Physical Description:

x, 182 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2010]

Contents:

Part 1 Theology for an Age of Transition

1 Things Have Changed, or "Toto, We're Not in Kansas Any More" 11

Religion in America Fifty Years Ago

The '60s and 70s

American Religion in the Early Twenty-First Century

2 Do Christians Have to Hate Change? 16

3 Why the Answers Must Be Theological (and What That Means) 19

A Theology Is a World-and-Life-View

Sources for Christian World-and-Life-Views

4 Postmodernity Makes Theologians of Us All 27

What Were the Assumptions of "Modernity?"

Transition to a Postmodern World

5 Postmodern Believing 34

Three Last Gasps of Late Modernity

Doubt Is Not Sin

Return to a Thinking Faith

Belonging, Behaving, Believing

Always Already on the Way

6 "Everything Must Change" 43

Parallels with the Fall of Rome

Changes in the Structure of Congregations

Changes in the Structure of Denominations

7 Managing Change 49

An Urgent Call lo Church Leaders

Part 2 Theologies That Can Transform the Church

8 Don't Give Up on the Church! 57

9 Transformative Theologies 61

Two Warring Camps

Returning to "Big Tent" Christianity

Don't Just Talk about It; Do It!

Learning from Experience

10 Learning to Find Your Theological Voice 69

Make Your Beliefs Conscious

Examples to Get You Started

The Seven Core Christian Questions

Building Church Programs from Your Theology Outward

Imagine Martin Luther in the Twenty-First Century

11 Theology as Telling the Story 79

Telling Theological Stories at the Personal Level

Telling Theological Stories at the Congregational Level-and Beyond

12 Theologies in Action 85

Put Your Thought Where Your Heart Is

Try This Experiment in Your Local Church

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Viewing Theologies as Complementary, Not Mutually Exclusive

13 A Theology of Self-Emptying for the Church 94

The Christ Hymn in Philippians 2

Living the Christ Hymn

Recognizing the Faces of Power and Prejudice

Self-Emptying in Christian Congregations

Uniting Proclamation with Self-Emptying

Self-Emptying Theologies

Part 3 Theologies That Can Transform Society

14 New Partnerships in Christian Activism 115

The Obama Effect

Postmodern (Pragmatic) Idealism

15 Time to Leave behind Old Liberal/Evangelical Battles 118

It Looks like "Liberal" Won't Do It

Finding a Term that Splits the Difference

Making a Difference with the Difference

16 From Church Ministries to Missional Churches 125

How Things Used to Be

How Things Are Now

Rethinking Theology of Mission from the Ground Up

Features of Missional Churches 125

17 Social Transformation without "Us versus Them" 132

Our Plural Identities

Theology in an Age of interlocking Identities

A Call to Retrieval, Renewal-and Radical Transformation

18 Constructing Theologies of the Community for the Community: The Six Steps 138

The Excitement Principle

Identifying with a Missional Community

Why Real Community and Missional Christianity are Inseparable

19 Toward a Progressive Theology for Christian Activism 146

Why Is It Controversial for Christians to be Boldly Progressive?

Social Transformation in Luke 4, Luke 6, and Matthew 25

Working with God for the Salvation of the World

Part 4 Conversations Worth Having

Conversation 1 Choice, Convictions, and Connections 161

Conversation 2 Barriers to Belonging 164

Conversation 3 Toward a Progressive Missiology 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780800696993

0800696999

OCLC:

422764064

Publisher Number:

99936113789