Disruptive Witness Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age by Alan Noble

Disruptive Witness Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age by Alan Noble

2018 WORLD Magazine Book of the Year--Accessible Theology

2018 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

★ Publishers Weekly Starred review

We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits--and devices--that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age"--an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible.

Drawing on Taylor's work, Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people's lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherentlydisruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below.

In this book Noble lays out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus. Disruptive Witness casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and cliché to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.

Noble, Alan: - Alan Noble is a dedicated family man and businessman, who decided to become an author in order to pass basic and important faith based lessons to his young son. Shortly after writing some lesson books for his son, Alan found out he had a daughter in the womb. Knowing we are in times of spiritual drought, he believed writing a faith-based series asking for the guidance God gave David when raising Solomon, Alan started his authoring career and the Young Solomon series. Picking up lessons and cues from God, family, and friends, the series reflects principles, morals, and the basics of a simple childhood.

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ISBN 13	9780830844838
ISBN 10	083084483X
Title	Disruptive Witness Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
Author	Alan Noble
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	InterVarsity Press
Year published	2018-07-17
Number of pages	192
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