Last week, I offered my review of James Davison Hunter's important book, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. A central idea of Hunter's is that Christians ought to be a "faithful presence" in their community of faith, their tasks, and their spheres of influence. Today, I want to focus on the second of those items: our tasks. I think there's a parallel between one of the mistakes people make in inductive Bible study - seeking to jump too quickly to … [Read more...] about How do we practice a faithful presence?
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Changing the World with James Davison Hunter
Michael Hickerson wrote the below review when he served as the Associate Director of the Emerging Scholars Network. Each year, the InterVarsity Faculty Ministry Leadership Team (FMLT) read a book together that (we hope) gets at some aspect of our ministry to the university. Our book for this year was James Davison Hunter's To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). If you've not read it yet, you should. Hunter, a … [Read more...] about Changing the World with James Davison Hunter