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Publisher: Paternoster
ISBN-10: 1842272926
ISBN-13: 9781842272923
Size: 5 x 8
Format: Paperback
Series: After-Christendom
Category: Church & Ministry, Church Life, General
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How will the western church negotiate the demise of Christendom? Can it rediscover its primary calling, recover its authentic ethos and regain its nerve?
If churches are to thrive—or even survive—disturbing questions need to be confronted and answered. In conversation with Christians who have left the church and with those who are experimenting with fresh expressions of church, Stuart Murray explores both the emerging and inherited church scenes and makes proposals for the development of a way of being church suitable for a post-denominational, post-commitment and post-Christendom era. With chapters on mission, community and worship, Church After Christendom offers a vision of church life that is healthy, sustainable, liberating, peaceful and missional.
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"This is one of the very best books that I have read on the reshaping of the church for mission in our changed context ...Highly recommended."
Graham Cray
Bishop of Maidstone and Chairman of the 'Mission-Shaped Church' Report
"Church After Christendom is a worthy successor to Post-Christendom; its breadth of knowledge and its perceptive questioning make it a must for national church leaders with a responsiblity fir shaping the Christian Church of this century."
Roger Whitehead
Executive Secretary, Group for Evangelisation
"The future of the church in the West is surely found in the kind of simple and sustainable churches Murray re-imagines, or else it has little future at all."
Paul Goodliff
Head of Department of Ministry, Baptist Union of Great Britian
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Stuart Murray is chair of the UK Anabaptist Network and the author of Post-Christendom and serveral over books on mission and church life. He also directs Urban Expression, a pioneering church-planting agency.
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