Product Description

A playful, witty, but substantive "postmodern ministry for dummies-type" book that fills the huge and getting huger hunger for something in one volume that introduces basic concepts and vernacular of "postmodern ministry."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #940450 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From the Back Cover
A Is for Abductive
B is for Body
C is for Carpe Manana
D is for Double-Ring
E is for EPICtivities
F is for Fractals
G is for Grace
H is for Holarchy
I is for Icon
J is for the J-Factor
K is for Kaleidoscopic Change
L is for Loopy
M is for Metanarrative
N is for Neurological Pre-Rewirings
O is for Open-Endedness
P is for Prayer
Q is for Quest-ions
R is for Radical Orthodoxy
S is for Systems Theology
T is for Tribal
U is for Unknown
V is for Voice
W is for Wonder
X is for Xenophilia
Y is for Yes!
Z is for Zending

Do You Know the Postmodern Alphabet?

The letters are all the same, but the things they stand for are as different as the future is from the past. A Is for Abductive helps you get a handle today on the vocabulary of tomorrow, and on concepts indispensable for living out the old-fashioned gospel in these newfangled times.

"You caused this book," writes one of the authors. "People like you were insisting on a beginner’s guide to the pathway of postmodern ministry." Here it is. There is no right or wrong place to begin—just pick a letter and start reading. You’ll acquire new words for a new world that will change how you think about church, about ministry, and about what it means to follow in Jesus’ footsteps—entering today’s culture in order to love it, serve it, and lead it home to God.

Customer Reviews

Entry Level Postmodernism. Great Book
If you wanted to know what postmodernism is all about and were afraid to ask (apologies to Woody Allen), this book will explain some new words, unpack some interesting concepts and give you an overview of postmodernism and how it affects the church, and more importantly what the church can do to relate to a postmodernist society and still remain true to its calling.

Not just an A to Z of concepts, but a lively and gripping smorgasbord of ideas, and practical too - it even suggests practical acitivities or 'epictivities' for you/churches to try!

A great read!