
Primitive Piety
A Journey from Suburban Mediocrity to Passionate Christianity
Ian Stackhouse(Author)
Paternoster Press
Published on 1. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-84227-786-7 (ISBN)
Description
In Primitive Piety Ian Stackhouse takes us on a journey away from the safe world of suburban piety, with its stress on moderation and politeness, and into the extreme and paradoxical world of biblical faith.
As someone who has pastored churches in suburbia for the last twenty years, the author is convinced that so much that passes off as Christian faith falls short of the radicalism or primitivism that we see in the pages of scripture: a primitivism that includes honest lament, dogged prayer, raw emotions and heart-felt desire. In a culture in which there is every danger that we all look the same and speak the same, Stackhouse argues for a more gritty kind of faith - one that celebrates the oddity of the gospel, the eccentricity of the saints, and the utter uniqueness of each and every church.
As someone who has pastored churches in suburbia for the last twenty years, the author is convinced that so much that passes off as Christian faith falls short of the radicalism or primitivism that we see in the pages of scripture: a primitivism that includes honest lament, dogged prayer, raw emotions and heart-felt desire. In a culture in which there is every danger that we all look the same and speak the same, Stackhouse argues for a more gritty kind of faith - one that celebrates the oddity of the gospel, the eccentricity of the saints, and the utter uniqueness of each and every church.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cumbria
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Send The Light
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84227-786-7 (9781842277867)
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Person
Ian Stackhouse is Senior Pastor of Guildford Baptist Church, he is the author of The Day is Yours, The Gospel Driven Church and a contributer to the book, Remembering our Future, he is active in the Deep Church movement in the UK
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