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02550aam a2200373 i 4500 001 AC4C2A16AB3711EC9559F3333DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220324010013 008 210722s2022 miu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021035439 020 $a 1540965333 020 $a 9781540965332 020 $a 1540964817 020 $a 9781540964816 035 $a (OCoLC)1260240162 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d ICW $d LNT $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 262.001/7 $2 23 100 1 $a Root, Andrew, $d 1974- $e author. 245 10 $a Churches and the crisis of decline : $b a hopeful, practical ecclesiology for a secular age / $c Andrew Root. 246 30 $a Hopeful, practical ecclesiology for a secular age 264 1 $a Grand Rapids, Michigan : $b Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, $c [2022] 300 $a xii, 287 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Ministry in a secular age ; $v 4 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Preface -- When the church becomes a pub, and the immanent frame our map -- Brother trouble and meeting the exorcist's son : the beginning of Karl Barth -- A funeral for a church : a funeral that remakes a church -- An apple tree and the incoherence of "God is God" -- The church can't know how to find God -- The church is not the start of its own story -- Welcome to crisis mode -- Wedding blunders and brotherly love -- Say goodbye to being and give me more busyness -- A shady obituary and the need to wait -- Waiting sucks but resonance is life -- Waiting is living : the church and resonance -- When Mozart goes straight into and through you -- Pietism and its discontents : a dialectical escape from individualism and religion -- A true ghost story and the birth of watchwords -- Getting real with a dialectical demand -- Deepening the dialectic : avoiding sledgehammering the ceiling -- Index. 520 $a "Congregations often seek to combat decline by using innovation to produce new resources. Leading practical theologian Andrew Root shows that the church's crisis is not in the loss of resources but in the loss of life-and that life can only return when we remain open to God's encountering presence"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Church renewal. 650 0 $a Church $x Forecasting. 830 0 $a Ministry in a secular age ; $v v. 4. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220324010045.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AC4C2A16AB3711EC9559F3333DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search