Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian CultureMichael Frost, Hendrickson, 2006
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ORDER NOW“Frost’s thesis is that Christendom has collapsed. He quotes Stuart
Murray that “post-Christendom is the culture that emerges as the
Christian faith loses coherence within a society that has been
definitively shaped by the Christian story and as the institutions that
have developed to express Christian convictions is in decline.”
(Murray, Post-Christendom, 19)
“Naturally, this is a matter of deep grief for many. For others, most
of those who will read this review, it is also a moment of profound
hope. We can rediscover ourselves as exiles, as a missional movement.
Brueggemann offers his disciplines as a way for exiles to maintain a
faithful witness in an alternative community—or
communitas—an
alternative culture. Frost will expand on the first four in the list
above. He summarizes his approach in pages 15-24, then closes with the
call to be generously angry, relating the story of George Orwell.
Orwell began as a depressed, withdrawn writer who discovered the
stories of Charles Dickens. He emerged as a man with a purpose,
committed to exposing injustice and untruth, full of vision and ideals.
Frost concludes that the work of the exile is not the discovery of a
new gospel, but a rediscovery of the life of Jesus. Chapter two looks
at Jesus the exile, and chapter three shows how we follow Him… these
are our dangerous memories.”
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