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The Church in Dark Times: Understanding and Resisting the Evil That Seduced the Evangelical Movement - Softcover

Cosper, Mike

 
9781587435737: The Church in Dark Times: Understanding and Resisting the Evil That Seduced the Evangelical Movement
Softcover
ISBN 10: 158743573X ISBN 13: 9781587435737
Verlag: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group, 2024

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In conversations about evil, we often look for malice and cruelty. But too often, evil masks itself behind the best of intentions. A cultural critic and church leader shows this dynamic at work in the ever-expanding crisis of abuse and failure in modern evangelical churches.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mike Cosper has been creating music, radio shows, and podcasts for more than 20 years. He produced and hosted The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast and is director of podcasts at Christianity Today. He now cohosts a weekly podcast called The Bulletin. Cosper also leads cohorts for church leaders and is the author of four books, including Recapturing the Wonder. He and his family live in Louisville, Kentucky.

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How Evil Hides in the Church behind Good Intentions

We expect evil to appear in obvious forms: malice, cruelty, and contempt. We also expect to find villains at the helm of evil movements and organizations, leaders with dark impulses and motivations. But all too often, malevolence is more subtle, hiding behind our own best intentions.

In The Church in Dark Times, cultural critic Mike Cosper unveils this dynamic in the growing crisis of abuse and other failures in modern evangelical churches. Drawing on the work of twentieth-century political theorist Hannah Arendt, Cosper explores what we can learn from her theory of the "banality of evil"--the thoughtlessness that allows ordinary people to become complicit in all manner of corruption. He uncovers the underlying causes of the breakdowns of the church and offers practices that foster healing and renewal.

"In seeking to understand how Mars Hill Church created a distorted reality and ethical framework, Cosper turns to the political thinker Hannah Arendt. Exploring Arendt's thinking about the power of ideology and the banality of evil, Cosper turns the story of Mars Hill Church into a window to our dark times."
--Roger Berkowitz, academic director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, professor, Bard College

"Cosper brings to bear his extensive work uncovering some of the most troubling moments in the American church, his deep and wide knowledge of art and culture, and, most important, his love of stories, Scripture, and the church."
--Karen Swallow Prior, author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

"Cosper has stared into the abyss of the darkest horrors of American Christianity. He also has gazed into the light of the glory of Christ. This book shows us how to tell the difference between the two while yielding to neither complicity nor cynicism."
--Russell Moore, editor in chief, Christianity Today

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Verlag
Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
158743573X
ISBN 13 
9781587435737
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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