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008			170213s2017 enk 000 0 eng d
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035			_a(OCoLC)972393189
040			_aYDX _beng _cYDX _dWIO _dOCLCF _dKAT _dLGV
100	1		_aWright, N. T. _q(Nicholas Thomas)
240	1	0	_aNew tasks for a renewed church
245	1	0	_aSpiritual and religious : _bthe gospel in an age of paganism / _cTom Wright.
260			_aLondon : _bSPCK Publishing, _c2017.
300			_axiii, 170 p. ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
500			_aRevised version of: New tasks for a renewed church, 1992, published in the USA as Bringing the church to the world -- p. ix.
520			_a"I'm spiritual but not religious." It's a phrase that's often used to explain why, although they don't go to church, people still feel that life must have some kind of transcendent meaning. But what does this "spirituality" consist of? In Spiritual and Religious Tom Wright argues that, whether people realize it or not, they are often simply reverting to forms of ancient paganism that are very similar to those that confronted the earliest Christians. With his characteristic verve and incisiveness, Wright traces the parallels between the worldviews of the first and twenty-first centuries, and shows how a better understanding of God as Trinity can breathe fresh life into our understanding and preaching of the gospel today. He concludes this prophetic book with a call to contemporary Christians to make a clear choice: "Are we to compromise with paganism, to assimilate, to water down the distinctives of Christian faith in order to make it more palatable? Are we to retreat into dualism, into a private 'spiritual' religion which will assure us of an other-worldly salvation but which will leave the powers of the present world unchallenged. . . ? Or are we to worship the God who is Father, Son and Spirit, and to find in that worship a renewed courage, a renewed sense of direction, and a renewed hope for the future?"
650		0	_aChurch renewal.
650		0	_aChristianity _xForecasting.
650		0	_aChurch and the world.
650		0	_aNon-church-affiliated people _xReligious life.
650		0	_aMaterialism _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
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