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Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a world marked by relativism, individualism, pluralism, and the transition from a modern to a postmodern worldview, evangelical Christians must find ways to re-present the historic faith. In his provocative work, Ancient-Future Faith, Robert E. Webber contends that present-day evangelicalism is a product of modernity. Allegiance to modernity, he argues, must be relinquished to free...

In this section we will review the classic understanding of the church as God’s presence in the world through the biblical images and the historic marks of the church. These signs map out a route for us to follow in the postmodern world. The argument of this chapter is that the church is the primary presence of God’s activity in the world. As we pay attention to what it means to be the church we create an alternative community to the society of the world. This new community, the embodied experience
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