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The Fall of the Church

by Roger Haydon Mitchell

  • Paperback
  • 126 pages
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 12.5 x 20.1 x 1.1 cm

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This book prepares the way for the practice of kenarchy: a humanity-loving, world-embracing, inclusive approach to life and politics. It does so by identifying two conflicting streams in Christianity: the love stream that the stories of Jesus portray and many of us desire to follow, and the sovereignty system that much of theology, church, and mission represents. Explaining how the two streams arose in early Western history, The Fall of the Church demonstrates that far from being complementary expressions of Christianity, the sovereignty stream embodies the very system that the Jesus of the gospels opposed. The fall of the church is described in terms of its embrace of the sovereignty system and the subsequent history of the West is explained as the story of the resulting partnership. If transcendence is truly like Jesus, then, rather than abandoning the empire system, God has remained within the church and empire in order to empty it out from the inside. Mitchell argues that this divine strategy has continued throughout the history of the West and is coming to a head, right now, in our contemporary Western world, and that the time is ripe for an incarnational politics of love.
The Fall of the Church and Church, Gospel, and Empire: How the Politics of Sovereignty Impregnated the West
Church, Gospel, and Empire: How the Politics of Sovereignty Impregnated the WestThe Fall of the Church

  • Author

    Roger Haydon Mitchell

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    July 2013

  • Weight

    137g

  • Page Count

    126

  • Dimensions

    12.5 x 20.1 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781620329283

  • ISBN-10

    162032928X

  • Eden Code

    4271255

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