The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission: Towards an Evangelical Political Theology

by David Fitch

Publisher:

Cascade

, 2011

Overview

In The End of Evangelicalism? David Fitch examines the political presence of evangelicalism as a church in North America. Amidst the negative image of evangelicalism in the national media and its purported decline as a church, Fitch asks how evangelicalism’s belief and practice has formed it as a political presence in North America. Why are evangelicals perceived as arrogant, exclusivist, duplicitous, and dispassionate by the wider culture? Diagnosing its political cultural presence via the ideological theory of Slavoj Zizek, Fitch argues that evangelicalism appears to have lost the core of its politic: Jesus Christ. In so doing its politic has become “empty.” Its witness has been rendered moot. The way back to a vibrant political presence is through the corporate participation in the triune God’s ongoing work in the world as founded in the incarnation. Herein lies the way towards an evangelical missional political theology. Fitch ends his study by examining the possibilities for a new faithfulness in the present emerging, missional church movements springing forth from evangelicalism in North America.

Product Details

• Title: The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission: Towards an Evangelical Political Theology
• Author: David Fitch
• Series: Theopolitical Visions
• Volume: 9
• Publisher: Cascade
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Evangelicalism › United States; Mission of the church › United States; Political theology › United States; Christianity and politics › United States
• ISBNs: 9781606086841, 1606086847
• Resource ID: LLS:THEOPOLEVANGEL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:20:19Z

About David Fitch

David Fitch is the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community—an emerging church in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. He is the co-founder of Up/Rooted, an emergent cohort that gathers leaders and thinkers to engage issues of the emerging church and the post-modern context. Up/rooted now has chapters all over the Chicago area. He has been a speaker and presenter at “emerging church” gatherings, the Ekklesia Project, as well as academic and denominational gatherings on the issues of church, postmodernity and culture. He is the author of numerous articles on church, culture and theological ethics in journals as diverse as the Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Discernment, Pastoral Psychology and the Journal of Christian Education. He is the author of The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from American Business, Para-Church Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism and Other Modern Maladies (Baker Books, 2005).