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9780830822645

Retrofuture : Rediscovering Our Roots, Recharting Our Routes

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    9780830822645

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    083082264X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-10-01
  • Publisher: Intervarsity Pr
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Summary

Old certainties are being replaced by a tangle of choices and mind-numbing changes. The future overtakes every area of our lives with intense social change. Technology is leading us into cyberspace. Electronic media threaten to turn books into historical artifacts. Postmodernism is eroding the basic idea of truth. The political world oscillates between imperialism and tribalism. Spiritual hunger is growing -- but new generations reject Christian answers for alternative spiritualities.

RetroFuture explores the bewildering complexity of life today and the responses it demands from us. How do we gain a foothold in this new cultural landscape? Where can we find the personal and social resources to outfit our journey into the future? How can we take with us the very best of past experience? Culture demands that we reroute. Survival demands that we reroot.

No intelligent Christian leader can avoid these issues. And for those who want to understand how the new generations are receiving -- or rejecting -- the gospel, this book is essential reading. Vibrant and enga

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9(2)
Introduction 11(10)
Part 1. Root Change: An Age of Social Transformation
No Small Change: In One Era & Out the Other
21(11)
Homo Xapiens: The New Prototype
32(11)
Seven Seat of Why: Charting Currents of Change
43(8)
Part 2. Root Causes: The Five ``Posts'' of Generation X & Beyond
New Tools, New Rules: Postindustrial Technology
51(15)
High-Cyber Diet: Living with Postindustrial Technology
66(13)
Gutenberger & Fries: Postliterate Communications
79(16)
Screenagers in Love: Living with Postliterate Communication
95(13)
``This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours'': The Postmodern Worldview
108(15)
Reimagineering the Church: Living with the Postmodern Worldview
123(12)
The Power of Globfrag: The Postimperial World Order
135(11)
Picking Up the Pieces: Living in the Postimperial World
146(16)
Gods R Us: Post-Christian Spirituality
162(18)
Karmogeddon: Living with Post-Christian Spirituality
180(17)
Part 3. Root Growth: Resources for the Management Change
Pillar to Post: The Impact of Change on the Church
197(14)
Tsar Wan: New Models of Leadership
211(12)
Notes 223

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