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008			131126s2014 ilu b 000 0 eng
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020			_a9780830844173 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aBV4509.5 _b.F755 2014
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100	1		_aFrost, Michael, _d1961-
245	1	0	_aIncarnate : _bthe body of Christ in an age of disengagement / _cMichael Frost.
260			_aDowners Grove, IL : _bIVP, _cc2014.
300			_a237 pages ; _bpaperback ; _c21 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505			_aRootless, 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.
520			_aThe 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
650		0	_aIncarnation.
650		0	_aChristian life.
650		0	_aMission of the church.
650		0	_aMissions _xTheory.
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