TY - BOOK AU - Bischoff,Paul O. TI - The human church SN - 9781532642357 AV - BR118 U1 - 230 23 PY - 2018/// CY - [Place of publication not identified] PB - Wipf & Stock Publishers KW - Theology KW - Christianity KW - Philosophy KW - Christianity and the social sciences KW - Théologie KW - Christianisme KW - Philosophie KW - Sciences sociales KW - Aspect religieux KW - theology KW - aat KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Theology KW - Systematic KW - bisacsh KW - General KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - The church doesn't need to be more spiritual. It needs to become more human. Since God decided becoming human was right, so must the church. Jesus' language was consistently understood by nonreligious people. Elitist in-house church language may never reach the growing number of Americans without a religious background who have given up on God. This book views the church as a unique people-group and the reader as an anthropologist. Employing basic ethnographic methods, the reader looks at the church again for the first time without a religious lens. Based upon the premise that all good theology UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1826991 ER -