{"product_id":"waiting-for-gospel-an-appeal-to-the-dispirited-remnants-of-protestant-establishment-paperback","title":"Waiting for Gospel: An Appeal to the Dispirited Remnants of Protestant \"Establishment\" - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas John Hall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Christianity, as faith centered in Jesus as the Christ came to be called, got a foothold in the world, and for a vital and vocal minority changed the world, because it proclaimed a message that awakened men and women to possibilities for human life that they had either lost or never entertained. That message the first Christian evangelists (and Jesus himself, according to the record) called euangellion--good news, gospel. For its first two or three hundred years, Christianity was largely dependent for its existence upon the new zest for life that was awakened in persons who heard and were, as they felt, transformed, by that gospel; and at various and sundry points in subsequent history the Christian movement has found itself revitalized by the spirit of that same 'good news' in ways that spoke to the specifics of their times and places. \"The lesson of history is clear: the challenge to all serious Christians and Christian bodies today is not whether we can devise yet more novel and promotionally impressive means for the transmission of 'the Christian religion' (let alone this or that denomination); it is whether we are able to hear and to proclaim . . . gospel! We do not need statisticians and sociologists to inform us that religion--and specifically our religion, as the dominant expression of the spiritual impulse of homo sapiens in our geographic context--is in decline. We do not need the sages of the new atheism to announce in learned tomes (and on buses!) that 'God probably does not exist.' The 'sea of faith' has been ebbing for a very long time.\" --from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouglas John Hall is Emeritus Professor of Christian Theology in the Faculty of Religious Studies of McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including \u003ci\u003eLighten Our Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e (1976, 2001); \u003ci\u003eWhy Christian?\u003c\/i\u003e (1998); \u003ci\u003eGod and Human Suffering\u003c\/i\u003e (1986); \u003ci\u003eThe Steward\u003c\/i\u003e (1990; Wipf \u0026amp; Stock, 2004); and \u003ci\u003eThe Messenger\u003c\/i\u003e (Cascade Books, 2011). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He has lectured widely in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Japan, and is the recipient of many honors, including the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Union Theological Seminary, the Joseph Sittler Award for Leadership in Theology, and the Order of Canada.\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423891374258,"sku":"9781610976725","price":31.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/75117ae66b5c54c57c3a595b2ad60a87.webp?v=1778499947","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/waiting-for-gospel-an-appeal-to-the-dispirited-remnants-of-protestant-establishment-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}