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Ahead Of The Curve
American Christians are obsessed with postmodernism. Books on the topic proliferate as Christians struggle to find their place and make a stand within the postmodern movement. There is a problem however. Postmodernist philosophy is on its way out. A new worldview is already taking root. Philosophers and pundits call the emerging worldview the Integral worldview. In this timely book, Fusco explores the new Integral worldview and what the church must do to stay Ahead of the Curve and be effective in the coming decades.'Daniel Fusco writes a first-person report of what the future will be like for the American church as it engages an ever-changing cultural milieu. The insights in this book will help you prepare for future ministry in cultural settings more and more removed from any Christian context.' Dr. Jeff Iorg President, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary'Daniel Fusco is an intellectual with both theological and philosophical underpinnings that enable him to address the future wisely while being courteous towards the past. Furthermore, he is a practitioner who lives genuinely among the people of one of America's most post-postmodern contexts. Daniel personally embodies the integrity and the integration he writes about, and for which this nascent world longs.' Linda BergquistAuthor, Church Turned Inside A Guide for Designers, Refiners and Re-Aligners
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First published March 29, 2011
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December 10, 2012
Ahead of the Curve
By Daniel Fusco
Mustang, Tate, 2010
Number of pages: 99
Postmodern this. Postmodern that. As the church tries to engage culture, it always seems to be a little behind the times. Current culture is postmodern say key note speakers at church conference venues, big and small, from coast to coast across America. But the church is about forty years late to the party if it's just now talking about this. "Welcome to the twentieth century, Twenty-First Century Church," author and pastor Daniel Fusco seems to be saying in his book, Ahead of the Curve.
Post modernity has taken root in Middle America and even the Bible Belt. "The northeast and the west coasts are already post-postmodern, and that is the subject of this book," writes Fusco.
Fusco traces his tracks from his conversion to Christ to becoming a church planter in two blatantly liberal demographics: New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Marin County, California. In the first half of this short book (I read the entire thing on a flight between Houston and Albuquerque, NM), Fusco lays out the definition of modernity, post-modernity, and post post-modernity and how world view and culture at large has been shaped by them. The second half of the book lays out how the church of Jesus Christ should respond and get out in front of shaping culture.
I'll have to admit that I was a skeptic as I worked through the first half of the book Two things were going through my mind: 1) this is too big of a subject to handle in such a small volume, and, 2) I braced myself for some kind of shrink-wrapped, seeker-sensitive marketing solution. Fusco kind of set me up for this, though, in the book's first half, using language like ex nihilo, ontology, etiology, and aporia. I appreciated his explanation of these words because, like I said, I was on a plane and didn't have access to my unabridged dictionary of rarely used theological and sociological words.
I was pleasantly surprised by Fusco's conclusions of how the church should engage and even stay out in front of culture. Fusco kept it simple. He kept the main thing the main thing. I don't want to give away what he wrote because there's only 40 more pages out of the 99 left to read. So, church-planter, pastor, future church planter, future pastor, you should get the book and find out for yourself. The book takes about two hours to read. It will be time well spent.
http://mondokblog.blogspot.com/2011/0...
By Daniel Fusco
Mustang, Tate, 2010
Number of pages: 99
Postmodern this. Postmodern that. As the church tries to engage culture, it always seems to be a little behind the times. Current culture is postmodern say key note speakers at church conference venues, big and small, from coast to coast across America. But the church is about forty years late to the party if it's just now talking about this. "Welcome to the twentieth century, Twenty-First Century Church," author and pastor Daniel Fusco seems to be saying in his book, Ahead of the Curve.
Post modernity has taken root in Middle America and even the Bible Belt. "The northeast and the west coasts are already post-postmodern, and that is the subject of this book," writes Fusco.
Fusco traces his tracks from his conversion to Christ to becoming a church planter in two blatantly liberal demographics: New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Marin County, California. In the first half of this short book (I read the entire thing on a flight between Houston and Albuquerque, NM), Fusco lays out the definition of modernity, post-modernity, and post post-modernity and how world view and culture at large has been shaped by them. The second half of the book lays out how the church of Jesus Christ should respond and get out in front of shaping culture.
I'll have to admit that I was a skeptic as I worked through the first half of the book Two things were going through my mind: 1) this is too big of a subject to handle in such a small volume, and, 2) I braced myself for some kind of shrink-wrapped, seeker-sensitive marketing solution. Fusco kind of set me up for this, though, in the book's first half, using language like ex nihilo, ontology, etiology, and aporia. I appreciated his explanation of these words because, like I said, I was on a plane and didn't have access to my unabridged dictionary of rarely used theological and sociological words.
I was pleasantly surprised by Fusco's conclusions of how the church should engage and even stay out in front of culture. Fusco kept it simple. He kept the main thing the main thing. I don't want to give away what he wrote because there's only 40 more pages out of the 99 left to read. So, church-planter, pastor, future church planter, future pastor, you should get the book and find out for yourself. The book takes about two hours to read. It will be time well spent.
http://mondokblog.blogspot.com/2011/0...
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