Primitive piety : a journey from suburban mediocrity to passsionate Christianity / Ian Stackhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stackhouse, Ian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life--Great Britain.

Christian life.

Spiritual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Keynes : Paternoster, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Primitive Piety Ian Stackhouse takes us on a journey away from the safe world of suburban piety, with its stress on moderation and politeness, and into the extreme and paradoxical world of biblical faith. As someone who has pastored churches in suburbia for the last twenty years, the author is convinced that so much that passes off as Christian faith falls short of the radicalism or primitivism that we see in the pages of scripture: a primitivism that includes honest lament, dogged prayer, raw emotions and heart-felt desire. In a culture in which there is every danger that we all look the same and speak the same, Stackhouse argues for a more gritty kind of faith - one that celebrates the oddity of the gospel, the eccentricity of the saints, and the utter uniqueness of each and every church.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Suburban Piety""; ""PART ONE""; ""Holy Love""; ""Undiscovered Octaves""; ""Honest Prayer""; ""PART TWO""; ""In Your Anger Do Not Sin""; ""Delighting in Our Desires""; ""Surprised by Joy""; ""PART THREE""; ""For the Love of Place""; ""Passionate Leadership""; ""Untamed Hospitality""; ""Conclusion: Holy the Wild""; ""Epilogue""; ""Endnotes""; ""Subject and Author Index""; ""Biblical Index""; ""Understanding Jesus""; ""No More Law!""; ""Sharing God�s Passion""; ""Light on Prophecy""; ""Multi-Voiced Church""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78078-066-4