Who Gets to Narrate the World?
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Overview
Who gets to narrate the world?
The late Robert Webber believed this question to be the most pressing issue of our time. Christianity in America, he preached, will not survive if Christians are not rooted in and informed by the uniquely Christian story that is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
This is the burden of Webber’s final book, Who Gets to Narrate the World?: Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals. Convinced that American evangelicals are facing the demise of their entire way of life and faith, Webber challenges his readers to rise up and engage both the external and internal challenges confronting them today. This means that Christians must repent of their cultural accommodation and reclaim the unique story--the Christian story--that God has given them both to proclaim and to live.
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- Challenges his readers to rise up and engage both the external and internal challenges.
- Offers a broad-stroke survey of the grand narratives.
- Encourages readers to not only become more familiar with the history of Christianity.
Bob Webber offers a broad-stroke survey of the grand narratives that seduce and bind us, and utters a passionate call for the church to teach and embody the whole sweep of God’s story in a postmodern world.
--David Neff, Editor-in-Chief and Vice President, Christianity Today Media Group
Webber’s warnings remain valuable for those of us in the West. We are not the only game in town.
--David Embree, SCJ, Spring 2009
Webber’s critique will resonate with many. He offers a clarion call for evangelicals to address their lack of theological depth and their excessive individualism. His plea to return to ancient traditions will appeal to those seeking rootedness in an ahistorical, evanglical world devoid of rich tradition.
--David K. Strong, Missiology, February 2009
- Title: Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals
- Author: Robert E. Webber
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 137
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics; Christianity and other religions
- ISBNs: 9780830834815, 0830834818
- Resource ID: LLS:WOGTSNRTEWRLD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-08T15:14:53Z
Robert Webber (1933–2007) was known for his work on worship and the early church. The son of a Baptist minister, Webber was raised in the Belgian Congo where his parents were missionaries. He studied at Bob Jones University, Reformed Episcopal Seminary, Covenant Theological Seminary, and Concordia Seminary.
Webber taught theology at Wheaton College for 32 years and was the Myers Professor of Ministry at Northern Seminary. In 1998, as a part of the Convergence Movement, Webber founded The Robert E. Webber Institute of Worship Studies school which focused exclusively on worship education.
Later in his life, Webber took a special interest in Christian worship practice and wrote and edited more than 40 books on this topic including the Ancient-Future series and The Complete Library of Christian Worship.
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