Metavista

by Greene, Colin

• ISBN13: 9781842275061
• ISBN10: 1842275062
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-06
• Publisher: Authentic Uk

Summary

"The core narrative of the Christian faith, the book that conveys it (the Bible) and the institution of the church have all been marginalised by the development of modernity and post-modernity. Strangely, post-modernity has created an opportunity for religious thinking and experience to re-enter the lives of many. Yet post-modernity is not itself an adequate framework for thinking about life. There is therefore a new opportunity for Christians to imagine what comes after post-modernity and to prepare the church, its book and its story for a new missional engagement with western culture. With a boldly crafted vision this book does precisely that."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Colin Greene was formerly Prfessor of Theological and Cultural Studies at Mars Hill Graduate School, Seattle.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Colin Greene
Modernity: Legacies that Remain	p. 3
Postmodernity: A Matrix of Meanings	p. 25
Metavista: Discerning the Rules of Engagement	p. 43
Metavista: Naming the Post-postmodern Condition	p. 65
Colin Greene
Cultural Engagement and the Refiguring of the Scriptures	p. 91
Constructing a Biblical Theology for Cultural Engagement	p. 113
Metavista: The Political Capital of the Bible in Cultural Engagement	p. 132
Martin Robinson
Deconstructing the Secular Imagination	p. 153
Imagining the Missional Community	p. 168
Reimagining a Counter-cultural Life	p. 183
Towards a Hermeneutic of Imagination	p. 206
Conclusion and Beyond Colin Greene	p. 223
Notes	p. 236
Bibliography	p. 257
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