Incarnate. The Body Of Christ In An Age Of Disengagement

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: IVP Books
Publisher Place: Downers Grove
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 237 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The story of Christianity is a story of incarnationGod taking on flesh and dwelling among the people he created. God appointing and sending people as his body, his hands and feet. Disciples of Jesus bearing the good news even as they bear the marks of his passion. Whatever Christianity is, it is at least a matter of flesh and blood and the ends of the earth. And yet so much of contemporary Christian culture is rooted not in incarnation but in escapeescape from the earth to heaven, escape from the suffering of this world, escape even from one another. Christianity is increasingly understood as something personal, conceptual, interior, private, neighborless. If Jesus was God incarnate, the church is in danger of being excarnate. Michael Frost expertly and prophetically exposes the gap between the faith we profess and the faith we practice. And he offers new hope for how the church can fulfill its vocation: to be the hands and feet of Christ to one another and to our neighbors, to the ends of the earth and to the end of the age.

ISBN: 9780830844173