The Church’s Western Cultural Captivity
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Overview
The future is now. Philip Jenkins has chronicled how the next Christendom has shifted away from the Western church toward the global South and East. Likewise, changing demographics mean that North American society will accelerate its diversity in terms of race, ethnicity and culture. But evangelicalism has long been held captive by its predominantly white cultural identity and history.
In this course professor and pastor Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its captivity to Western cultural trappings and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. Rah brings keen analysis to the limitations of American Christianity and shows how captivity to Western individualism and materialism has played itself out in megachurches and emergent churches alike. Many white churches are in crisis and ill-equipped to minister to new cultural realities, but immigrant, ethnic and multiethnic churches are succeeding and flourishing.
This prophetic report casts a vision for a dynamic evangelicalism that fully embodies the cultural realities of the twenty-first century. Spiritual renewal is happening within the North American church, from corners and margins not always noticed by those in the center. Come, discover the vitality of the next evangelicalism.
- Brings keen analysis to the limitations of American Christianity.
- Casts a vision for a dynamic evangelicalism that fully embodies the cultural realities.
- Helps discover the vitality of the next evangelicalism.
- Lesson 1: What Is the Next Evangelicalism?
- Lesson 2: Captivity to Individualism
- Lesson 3: Captivity to Materialism and Consumerism
- Lesson 4: Captivity to Racism
- Lesson 5: Cultural Captivity in the American Church
- Lesson 6: Theologies of Suffering and Celebration
- Lesson 7: Holistic Evangelism
- Lesson 8: A Multicultural Worldview
- Title: The Church’s Western Cultural Captivity (video)
- Author: Soong-Chan Rah
- Publisher: Seminary Now
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Video
- Subject: Multiculturalism › Religious aspects--Christianity
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRCHSWSTCPTVTYVD
- Resource Type: Media
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-19T18:13:44Z
Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah is the Milton B. Engebretson Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago and the author of The Next Evangelicalism: Releasing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity (IVP, 2009); Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church (Moody, 2010); and an upcoming commentary on the book of Lamentations, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times (IVP, 2015). He is also co-author of Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith (Zondervan, 2014).
After completing his BA in political science and history/sociology at Columbia University, Dr. Rah earned an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a ThM from Harvard University, and a DMin from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is currently in the ThD program at Duke University.
Dr. Rah was the founding senior pastor of the Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC), a multi-ethnic church focused on urban ministry and committed to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context.
Dr. Rah lives in Chicago with his wife,Sue, who teaches special education, and their two children,Annah and Elijah.
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