02563cam a2200337 i 4500 17955924 AU-EpEBC 20140730115556.0 131126s2014 ilu b 000 0 eng 2013046585 9780830844173 (pbk. : alk. paper) DLC eng rda DLC NEMB pcc BV4509.5 .F755 2014 261 23 EW Frost, Michael, 1961- Incarnate : the body of Christ in an age of disengagement / Michael Frost. Downers Grove, IL : IVP, c2014. 237 pages ; paperback ; 21 cm Includes bibliographical references. Rootless, disengaged and screen addicted -- The schizophrenic sense of self -- Wandering aimlessly in a moral minefield -- The moral ambiguity of our time -- Religion as an embodied experience -- Learning embodiment from the master -- Desire, idolatry and discipleship -- We are spirited bodies -- Mission in the excarnate age -- Defying church-world dualism -- Placed persons -- Adopting an incarnational posture -- The first page of the end of despair -- Getting there. The story of Christianity is a story of incarnation -- God taking on flesh and dwelling among the people he created. God appointing and sending people as his body, his hands and feet. Disciples of Jesus bearing the good news even as they bear the marks of his passion. Whatever Christianity is, it is at least a matter of flesh and blood and the ends of the earth. And yet so much of contemporary Christian culture is rooted not in incarnation but in escape -- escape from the earth to heaven, escape from the suffering of this world, escape even from one another. Christianity is increasingly understood as something personal, conceptual, interior, private, neighborless. If Jesus was God incarnate, the church is in danger of being excarnate. Michael Frost expertly and prophetically exposes the gap between the faith we profess and the faith we practice. And he offers new hope for how the church can fulfill its vocation: to be the hands and feet of Christ to one another and to our neighbors, to the ends of the earth and to the end of the age Incarnation. Christian life. Mission of the church. Missions Theory. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc 43952 43952 0 0 ddc 0 0 261 Social theology MAIN MAIN OS 2014-07-30 Koorong 18.99 0 261/FRO 15206 2015-08-12 00:00:00 1 50.00 2014-07-30 AM