The Wild Gospel: Bringing Truth to Life

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Wild Gospel: Bringing Truth to Life
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alison Morgan
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 130
Category/GenreChristianity
ISBN/Barcode 9781854246721
ClassificationsDewey:248
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Lion Hudson Plc
Imprint Monarch Books
NZ Release Date 17 September 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A prophetic challenge to the Western church. The Christian faith is always subversive to the dominant world view. Jesus overturned every assumption which stopped people experiencing the living reality of God - the heart of truth. Sadly, the Western world has reduced "truth" to the merely rational, and then discarded it as inadequate. In Africa, and other parts of the world where God's truth has never been straitjacketed in this way, the church is characterised by a joy now absent in the West. Western culture has limited what we can believe and receive. Can we: Burst free from this restrictive secular framework? Learn not only to know truth, but to feel it, and live it? Live our faith in such a way that it becomes real to those around us? Alison Morgan shows that Jesus lived free from the culturally imposed norms which restrict our understanding of truth. Examining church history, prophecy past and present, the state of our culture and of the church today, and drawing on personal experience and the experience of others, Alison blends analysis and imagination, history and poetry in this prophetic challenge to Western Christians.