Reinventing American Protestantism Christianity in the New Millennium 1st Edition by Donald E Miller ISBN 9780520922662 0520922662
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ISBN 10: 0520922662
ISBN 13: 9780520922662
Author: Donald E Miller
During the past thirty years the American religious landscape has undergone a dramatic change. More and more churches meet in converted warehouses, many have ministers who’ve never attended a seminary, and congregations are singing songs whose melodies might be heard in bars or nightclubs. Donald E. Miller’s provocative examination of these “new paradigm churches”—sometimes called megachurches or postdenominational churches shows how they are reinventing the way Christianity is experienced in the United States today.
Drawing on over five years of research and hundreds of interviews, Miller explores three of the movements that have created new paradigm churches: Calvary Chapel, Vineyard Christian Fellowship, and Hope Chapel. Together, these groups have over one thousand congregations and are growing rapidly, attracting large numbers of worshipers who have felt alienated from institutional religion. While attempting to reconnect with first-century Christianity, these churches meet in nonreligious structures and use the medium of contemporary twentieth-century America to spread their message through contemporary forms of worship, Christian rock music, and a variety of support and interest groups.
In the first book to examine postdenominational churches in depth, Miller argues that these churches are involved in a second Reformation, one that challenges the bureaucracy and rigidity of mainstream Christianity. The religion of the new millennium, says Miller, will connect people to the sacred by reinventing traditional worship and redefining the institutional forms associated with denominational Christian churches. Nothing less than a transformation of religion in the United States may be taking place, and Miller convincingly demonstrates how “postmodern traditionalists” are at the forefront of this change
Reinventing American Protestantism Christianity in the New Millennium 1st Edition Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1 The New Face of American Protestantism A Second Reformation?
CHAPTER 2 Hippies, Beach Baptisms, and Healings A History of Three Movements
CHAPTER 3 Transforming Your Life The Process of Conversion
CHAPTER 4 Beyond Rationality Democratizing Access to the Sacred
CHAPTER 5 Living by the Bible Social Ministry, Politics, Theology
CHAPTER 6 Giving the Ministry to the People The Postmodern Organization
CHAPTER 7 Franchising New Groups Church Planting and Growth
CHAPTER 8 Can the Mainline Church Survive? Some Lessons from History
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