The church in an age of secular mysticisms : why spiritualities without God fail to transform us /

In a secular age that offers a buffet of spiritualities focused on the self and on personal transformation, leading practical theologian Andrew Root shows the difference between these reigning mysticisms and an authentic Christian view of transformation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Root, Andrew, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2023].
Series:Ministry in a secular age.
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Table of Contents:
  • New mystics without God : closed world structures and memoirists
  • When dogs bark during Paris lockdown : meet the magnificent Jean-Jacques
  • Performing selves are so guilty : why mysticism and guilt are back
  • When the everyday houses a mysticism without God
  • The [bleeping] triangles are everywhere : how triangulated dilemmas and conflicts map the mysticism of a secular age
  • Mystical memoirists : mapping the spiritual pathways of a secular age
  • Why not all mysticisms are equal : welcome to a smooth, pornographic world obsessed with action
  • Why passivity is the path
  • The headless man of shadows : into negativity
  • When a late-night talk leads to deconversion : or, how we keep from hating the world.