The Church after Innovation: Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Outreach 2023 Resource of the Year (Church)Named One of Fifteen Important Theology Books of 2022, Englewood Review of BooksChurches and their leaders have innovation fever. Innovation seems excitinga way to enliven tired institutions, embrace creativity, and be proactiveand is a superstar of the business world. But this focus on innovation may be caused by an obsession with contemporary relevance, creativity, and entrepreneurship that inflates the self, lacks theological depth, and promises burnout.In this follow-up to Churches and the Crisis of Decline, leading practical theologian Andrew Root delves into the problems of innovation. He explores where innovation and entrepreneurship came from, shows how they break into church circles, and counters the "new imaginations" like neoliberalism and technology that hold the church captive to modernity. Root reveals the moral visions of the self that innovation and entrepreneurship deliverthey are dependent on workers (and consumers) being obsessed with their selves, which leads to significant faith-formation issues. This focus on innovation also causes us to think we need to be singularly unique instead of made alive in Christ. Root offers a return to mysticism and the poetry of Meister Eckhart as a healthier spiritual alternative.This is the fifth book in Root's Ministry in a Secular Age series.
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The Church after Innovation: Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Outreach 2023 Resource of the Year (Church)Named One of Fifteen Important Theology Books of 2022, Englewood Review of BooksChurches and their leaders have innovation fever. Innovation seems excitinga way to enliven tired institutions, embrace creativity, and be proactiveand is a superstar of the business world. But this focus on innovation may be caused by an obsession with contemporary relevance, creativity, and entrepreneurship that inflates the self, lacks theological depth, and promises burnout.In this follow-up to Churches and the Crisis of Decline, leading practical theologian Andrew Root delves into the problems of innovation. He explores where innovation and entrepreneurship came from, shows how they break into church circles, and counters the "new imaginations" like neoliberalism and technology that hold the church captive to modernity. Root reveals the moral visions of the self that innovation and entrepreneurship deliverthey are dependent on workers (and consumers) being obsessed with their selves, which leads to significant faith-formation issues. This focus on innovation also causes us to think we need to be singularly unique instead of made alive in Christ. Root offers a return to mysticism and the poetry of Meister Eckhart as a healthier spiritual alternative.This is the fifth book in Root's Ministry in a Secular Age series.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781540964823 |
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Publisher: | Baker Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 09/20/2022 |
Series: | Ministry in a Secular Age , #5 |
Pages: | 256 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
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