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    Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
    Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
    Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
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    Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age

    Written by Alan Noble

    Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins

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    About this audiobook

    We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits?and devices?that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age"?an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible. Drawing on Taylor's work, Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people's lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherently disruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below. In this book Noble lays out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus. Disruptive Witnesscasts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and cliche to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateJul 17, 2018
    ISBN9781545908082
    Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
    Author

    Alan Noble

    Alan Noble (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University. He has written for the Atlantic, Vox, The Gospel Coalition, Christianity Today, and First Things. He is also the author of Disruptive Witness and You Are Not Your Own.

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    • 3/5
      I started listening to this book because it was suggested to me by the Scribd algorithms. I am a fan of the book “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” by Carl R Trueman, in Scribd, and have listened to that book twice. So, most likely, that’s why Scribd thought I would be interested in this book.
    • 4/5
      Meditations on applications of the lessons of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age to Christian faith in modern America.The author distills many of the primary lessons from A Secular Age: the "optionalization" of faith, the development of the buffered self, etc., and also spoke of the siren song of modern consumerism and the constant distractions of the age. The author makes a case for living the faith as a disruptive witness: no longer content presenting Christianity as but one option for lifestyle among many, to take its claims seriously and to live like it, and attempts to find some ways forward.His analysis and application of Taylor is excellent. I appreciated his concern regarding how the Gospel and church are presented to people in terms of what works in marketing, with kitsch, or in any other way that makes the Gospel look like just one option among many in the modern marketplace. His focus on practices which are countercultural - to cease distraction, at least at times, for prayer, service, and devotion, to really mean what is prayed, sung, and preached, etc., are beneficial. At times the Reformed/Calvinist inclinations of the authors are made evident, and that must be kept in mind. Nevertheless, a work which deserves the high regard it is receiving in many places. Worth consideration.**--galley received as part of early review program