- Hardcover: 446 pages
- Publisher: Zondervan (30 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0310227623
- ISBN-13: 978-0310227625
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 758,528 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This tape offers a multi-layered sonic experience featuring Leonard Sweet's vision of the Gospel that's radical, challenging, and true, and it sparks practical ideas for putting this vision in motion.
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Leonard Sweet--cultural historian, futurist, preacher, and preeminent thinker--firmly believes we live in a postmodern, pre-Christian society fraught with challenges, dangers, critical choices, and above all, tremendous potential for the church. The outcome will depend on our response to today’s flood of change that threatens to sweep us away.
SoulTsunami outlines ten cultural changes that are already happening around us and suggests practical ways to communicate God’s unchanging truth to our changing world. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I purchased Leonard Sweet's SoulTsunami looking for a "road map" to postmodern culture. What I got was a gyroscope. But a road map is useless to one adrift in the strange and disturbing waters of postmodernism. That's exactly where we are, church, and that's precisely why we need a new tool - a gyroscope, not a road map -- to navigate through these uncharted waters.
The terra firma of the modern world has given way to the fluid, amorphous culture of postmodernism. It is an ocean on which the "old ship of Zion" must set sail. This book's subtitle, "Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture," aptly sums up the challenge postmodernism presents to the church.
SoulTsunami is engaging (who could tell from Sweet's straightforward writing style that he's actually an academic?), comprehensive (well researched and chock full of facts), and disturbing (especially, for me, Life Ring #5, "Get Bionomic," a fascinating and soul-agitating glimpse into our future). Yet Sweet's appraisal of the postmodern predicament is honest and right on target. Approach this book with an open mind, accept Sweet's challenges (even if you don't agree with everything he says), and be prepared to "get over" any pre-conceived ideas of how the Christian faith ought to be.
SoulTsunami should be on the reading list of every pastor, cell group leader, choir member, church organist, youth minister/worker, and pew-warmer.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is an impressionistic collection of anecdotes, resources, facts, statistics, and images of our postmodern world. The organizing scheme is not clear or easy to follow, and if you are looking for specific program suggestions, buy another book. On the other hand, if you are trying to get a global, visceral sense of what the world is like today and how important it will be for Christians to rethink our modernity-based assumptions, this is the book for you.
Every chapter has questions and research projects (some probably impossible actually to do and meant only to make an impression conceptually), as well as an opportunity for (limited) followup on a web page.
It's unique. You might like it. But don't make it the only book you read on the topic of the church and postmodernism.
Format:Hardcover
Leonard Sweet has written a book that every person who seeks to live a faithful AND relevant Christian faith in the 21st century MUST read. Not only does he give excellent descriptions of postmodernism, often in contrast to life "wiwak" (when I was a kid), he asks the most important question, SO WHAT? It is a book that I am recommending to all my friends in the church and to several friends who have written the church off because of its irrelevancy to life in today's and tomorrow's world. The book has been written in a style that is both a quick read (simple) and an intense (profound) read.
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