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The next evangelicalism : freeing the church from Western cultural captivity / Soong-Chan Rah.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (228 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781461942238
  • 1461942233
  • 9780830878031
  • 0830878033
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Next evangelicalismDDC classification:
  • 270.8/3 22
LOC classification:
  • BR1640 .R34 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Individualism : the heartbeat of Western, white cultural captivity -- Consumerism and materialism : the soul of Western, white cultural captivity -- Racism : the residue of Western, white cultural captivity -- The Church growth movement and megachurches -- The emergent church's captivity to Western, white culture -- The cultural imperialism of the Western, white captivity of the church -- Suffering and celebration : learning from the African American and Native American communities -- Holistic evangelism : learning from the immigrant church -- A multicultural worldview : learning from the second generation.
Summary: Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its captivity to Western cultural trappings and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. Rah brings keen analysis to the limitations of American Christianity and shows how captivity to Western individualism and materialism has played itself out in megachurches and emergent churches alike. --from publisher description.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)638019

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and indexes.

Individualism : the heartbeat of Western, white cultural captivity -- Consumerism and materialism : the soul of Western, white cultural captivity -- Racism : the residue of Western, white cultural captivity -- The Church growth movement and megachurches -- The emergent church's captivity to Western, white culture -- The cultural imperialism of the Western, white captivity of the church -- Suffering and celebration : learning from the African American and Native American communities -- Holistic evangelism : learning from the immigrant church -- A multicultural worldview : learning from the second generation.

Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its captivity to Western cultural trappings and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. Rah brings keen analysis to the limitations of American Christianity and shows how captivity to Western individualism and materialism has played itself out in megachurches and emergent churches alike. --from publisher description.

Print version record.