GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn
Overview
The rise of the Internet and the proliferation of digital technologies have profoundly affected the world; it is not only smaller but also more interconnected. What role does the church play in this multimedia-dominated globe?
Carl Raschke tackles this question and others in GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn. In this volume, Raschke tackles the subjects of globalization, postmodernism, and information technology and their impact on missions and evangelism. In addition, he addresses the role that Christianity plays in an increasingly pluralistic world, providing concrete strategies for confronting the challenges. Raschke, in short, helps Christians respond to the tectonic shifts of the twenty-first century.
This excellent melding of theory and practice will appeal to a broad audience of scholars, students, pastors, and interested lay readers. GloboChrist will not only leave an indelible mark in the academic realm but will also create a lasting impact on culture at large.
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- Discusses globalization, postmodernism, and information technology
- Investigates the new postmodern way of envisioning missions
- Analyzes the social and historical phenomenon of the “global South”
Top Highlights
“Even today in the West, progressives and conservatives alike miss the broader and deeper trajectory of events. They scarcely recognize that what Huntington termed ‘the rest’ of the world is in an open and increasingly antagonistic struggle with the West. They also miss the point that the struggle is not anti-Western per se. It is primarily antisecular and therefore only anti-Western in the sense that the West has made secularity its dominant culture, displacing, and in many cases renouncing, its Judeo-Christian heritage.” (Pages 17–18)
“Whether it tilts to the left or to the right, the dominant culture of the West since the eighteenth century has been secular and individualistic, convinced that the supreme goal of human life and human history is the private pursuit of happiness and the guarantee of distinct individual political rights.” (Page 17)
“By some measures the emerging church has stumbled into a less-apparent modernistic snare of its own making by becoming increasingly identified with American or European youth culture, all the while constantly striving, at least in terms of its most visible leadership, to be hipper than thou without paying serious attention to the deeper and more intractable cries of the planet’s downtrodden and lost.” (Page 51)
“How can we be equipped so that Christ becomes the ‘transformer’ of culture without ending up being the ‘Christ of culture’?” (Page 55)
“rather than expel many elements from the rainbow continuum of world religions that predominated at the time.” (Page 78)
Raschke’s style is vigorous, engaging, and fast-paced, drawing on a formidable range of scholarship. . . . A significant contribution which ought to be read by every student of contemporary Christian culture.
—Debbie Herring, Theology
GloboChrist is the unconventional title of an intriguing inquiry into postmodern patterns and ideas and the challenge to mission. The book is a confident statement for these uncertain times, a troubling of the waters that will stir complacent Christians in their assumptions.
—Lamin Sanneh, professor of world Christianity and history, Yale University
- Title: GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn
- Author: Carl Raschke
- Series: Church and Postmodern Culture
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 2008
- Pages: 176