The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God

cycle; the more we see divine action as (even a tacit) impossibility, the more we see our only hope as keeping the youthful in our institutions by making the church relevant.

To experience resonance, and therefore encounter a living world or, better, a living God in the world, we not only need to feel alive but also need to be called out to act in the world.

There is no way to extract ourselves from the age of authenticity and the construal of Secular 3. But the attention to experience in the age of authenticity does nevertheless open up a possibility. By giving attention to people’s experience of cross-pressure, to the echoes of transcendence they experience (but doubt), to the very ways they get cros

But there was also a major theological slippage that, starting at least in the 1960s, flattened our conceptions of transcendence or revelation and more generally moved our understanding of faith formation in unhelpful directions (including manifestations of MTD).