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Evangelical Landscapes presents a wide-ranging discussion of evangelical growing pains as the movement confronts a variety of challenges in the new millennium.
- Sales Rank: #2008238 in eBooks
- Published on: 2002-11-01
- Released on: 2002-11-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
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ìThese remarkable essays cover a spectrum of issues facing evangelicalism in North America. John Stackhouse is thoughtful and engaging, at times cranky, but always provocative.î óRandall Balmer, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University ìJohn Stackhouse is a model for evangelical scholars addressing an audience outside the guild. No scandal hereóunless evangelical readers fail to pay attention.î óJohn Wilson, editor, Books & Culture There are signs all around us that evangelicals are in a state of ìspiritual adolescenceî, charges John Stackhouse, and have been since breaking with fundamentalism a half century ago. In Evangelical Landscapes, he urges believers to develop a more sophisticated approach to worship and a more deeply felt sense of what it is to be a Christian.
Evangelical Landscapes explores the past and the present state of the evangelical movement in North America. It is intended to inform, inspire, and perhaps even lead to necessary change. Provocative chapters discuss the parachurch movement, ambivalence toward the Bible, money and theology, and whether evangelicals face an era of spiritual illiteracy and superstition.
Readers interested in the future of the evangelical movement will be challenged by this perceptive and engaging book. John G. Stackhouse, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College. He is a contributing editor of Christianity Today and Books & Culture, and a regular columnist for Christian Week and Faith Today.
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John G. Stackhouse, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Perpetual Adolescence: The Current Culture of North American Evangelicalism 2. The Promise and Peril of the "Parachurch" 3. A Double Copernican Revolution in the Church 4. Evangelicals and the Bible Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 5. Money and Theology in North American Evangelicalism
6. The Christian Church in the New Dark Age: Illiteracy, Aliteracy, and the Word of God 7. A "Paradigm Case": Billy Graham and the Nature of Conversion 8. Women in Public Ministry in Twentieth-Century North American Evangelicalism: Five Models 9. Why Johnny Can't Produce Christian Scholarship 10. Evangelical Theology Should Be Evangelical
11. Speaking in Tongues: Communicating the Gospel Today
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Identifies the State of Evangelicalism and Diagnoses the Problems
By Craig Stephans
Stackhouse points out the weaknesses and shortfalls of contemporary North American evanglicals with aplomb. He knows the pulse and problems of evangelicalism and states what I think are accurate descriptions. At times, his writing seems to become something of a rant of all the problems of evangelicalism.
The book consists of separate essays connected by the commone topic of evangelicalism in North America. Stackhouse diagnoses contemporary North American Evangelicals as being stuck in "adolescence." Evangelicals have become enmeshed with the culture. They have gotten carried away by an American gospel characterized by the pursuit of success, consumerism, individualism and luxury. This has facilitated evangelicals making their needs primary when it comes to church membership. Stackhouse calls this "church shopping." (28)
American evangelicals have accommodated their comfort in the culture by making alliances with parachurch organizations that are funded to allow evangelicals to vicariously carry out mandates of the gospel. The evangelical climate in North America is highlighted with charismatic, dynamic leaders that create something akin to a cult following. Stackhouse writes that these leaders operate without needing the approval of any structural hierarchy and can focus on the activities du jour. This can lead to positive activity and change but can be a weakness leading flocks into wrong teachings or leading to corruption. Congregations gather around pastors who are deemed to be solely responsible for the spirituality of the people.
According to Stackhouse Evangelicals have fallen victim to compartmentalized lives in which Christianity/religion is one of many pursuits or priorities. Stackhouse also points to a general Biblical ignorance among evangelicals who are content to be aware of the highlights of the Bible and who assume that by being "good" patriotic, church-going Americans they are following Biblical principles. The consumer-driven, media-culture inspired lifestyle is plain contradictory to the Christian life handed down from the apostles and early church. The communities that evangelicals affiliate closely with too often affirm evangelicals' current lifestyles.
Stackhouse also addresses issues related to conversion, especially the Billy Graham type of crusades. He also devotes a chapter to the several evangelical views on women in ministry.
Unfortunately, Stackhouse doesn't offer anything in the area of prescription to remedy the diagnoses he has shared in this book. This book will show several problems areas in evangelicalism that will not be major revelations to readers.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Good analysis of problems in evangelicalism, but not many answers given to the problems raised
By Jesse Rouse
In this book John Stackhouse deals with many issues in contemporary Evangelical churches, such as a lack of spiritual maturity, how parachurches compete with local churches, the senior pastor problem, biblical illiteracy, etc.
This book is made up of eleven essays, many of which Dr. Stackhouse had written for other publications (mostly Christian journals), so the chapters in this book do not always seem to flow into each other. For example, in chapters seven through nine he goes from talking about Billy Graham and the nature of conversion to models of women in ministry to the lack of Christian scholarship in evangelicalism. As far as I can tell there are three underlying things which connect all of his chapters together.
The first is, obviously, evangelicalism. He rarely strays outside of evangelical church to discuss what other denominations do differently. While it is nice that he focuses so well on his topic, I think that perhaps comparing evangelicalism to other denomination in some of the areas he talked about would have been helpful.
The second underlying theme is that evangelicalism has problems. All of his chapters deal with problems in Evangelicalism, instead of what it is doing right. This can also be a very good thing. I think the problems are what we need to be dealing with, but if one only read this book, you would probably come to the conclusion that evangelicalism is one of the worst Christian groups in existence. Perhaps Dr. Stackhouse should have at least included some of the things that evangelicalism is getting right, just to balance the picture a little bit. I am not saying that he needs to focus on the good things in evangelicalism, because that is what most evangelicals tend to do and that does not help us solve our problems at all. I am saying that in order to present an accurate picture of the state of evangelicalism, as he claims to be trying to do with a title like Evangelical Landscapes, he need to stop focusing solely on what is wrong with evangelicalism. It may be that there are a lot of things wrong with evangelicalism. I doubt many informed people would argue that. But I also think people reading about evangelicalism should hear both the good and the bad, not just the bad.
The third issue he continually brings up in each essay is the changing nature of evangelicalism. He constantly tells us that the issues in contemporary evangelicalism are not the issues of the last generation's evangelicalism. On this point, I have no criticism of Dr. Stackhouse. I think that this is an extremely important point that he is making. He makes us realize that if we are still using the same methods of teaching in the church that were used in the last generation, it is likely that they will not be effective. Take his section on biblical literacy for example. If one taught a lesson in an evangelical church, say, twenty-five years ago, one could allude to scripture verses all the time and the audience would be able to keep up with you. They would be able, not only to know what you were referring to, but probably why you were referring to it. If one tried to do that same thing in an evangelical church today, it is doubtful that even the pastor would know what you were referring to, and certainly the number who understood what you were saying would be very few, if there would be any at all.
But what do we do about this? How should we respond to the utter lack of biblical literacy (or perhaps just literacy in general)? This brings up to mind the biggest complaint I have against Dr. Stackhouse's book: he provides few answers. He raises many critical questions, and I am glad he does, but he never really gets around to suggesting what we should do about these problems. He does provide small paragraphs at the end of some sections saying something like "if only evangelicals would follow the bible..." (see the last paragraph of chapter three for a good example of this) or something of that nature, but he never gives us any ideas about how to do that. His so called answers are simply naïve suggestions telling us to stop doing what we are doing wrong. I seriously doubt that this will be of much help at all. Getting up on a Sunday morning and telling a congregation that they are biblically illiterate will probably not solve the problem. All it will probably do is offend people and get you into trouble without having really helped the people in your congregation at all. Do not get me wrong, this is an excellent book, but it would have been even better if he had at least some practical suggestions about what we should do to remedy these problems.
In conclusion, I would say that this is a very helpful book for anyone who wishes to become a scholar in the evangelical tradition. The issues which Dr. Stackhouse raises are ones which anyone who is a position of leadership/teaching in evangelicalism will have to deal with. These are not problems which will just go away, they are problems which must be dealt with. Any evangelical scholar who does not deal with these issues does not seem to me to be really connected with the movement he is a part of. If you simply live in an ivory tower doing your research, but never helping the church deal with the issues which threaten to tear her apart, then it seems to me that you have become entirely isolated from those who you claim are your brothers and sisters in Christ.
Overall grade: A-
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