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by Dave Tomlinson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich (29 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1853118575
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853118579
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Dave Tomilinson is author of "The Post Evangelical", a seminal book which acknowledged the disenchantment with simplistic approaches to faith experienced by many evangelicals. Many, locked into interpretations of Christianity that they can no longer accept, have given up on the Church altogether. But is re-enchantment possible in our post-modern, post-Christian age?Re-enchantment is not a return to credulity or an attempt to recapture lost innocence, but it is finding a realistic faith that reconciles heart and head, that offers a positive, engaging spirituality, that is unafraid of grappling honestly with difficult questions.


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Dave Tomlinson was a house church leader for many years and is now an Anglican priest. Unable to accept the narrow restrictions of his tradition, he founded the legendary Holy Joe's, a church in a pub in Clapham for disaffected church drop outs. He is now Vicar of St Luke's, Holloway - home of the Greenbelt Christian Arts Festival - and a thriving parish church in London.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening and life-affirming, 13 Sep 2008
By Mark Mckee (UK) - See all my reviews
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Dave Tomlinson's Re-Enchanting Christianity is a must-have for anyone with a spiritual yearning, whether steeped in Christianity or from other walks of life altogether. By seeking to separate spirituality from the entanglements of religion we see a fresh perspective on how God is interested in the whole person and their interactions within the community and wider society and not just the soul. "Church is not supposed to be a place of theological `purity' or rigid conformity to certain beliefs and conventions, but a mishmash of believers, doubters, dissenters and malcontents, each of whom is grappling in his or her own way towards a mystery that is God." The reader is encouraged to look beyond the baggage of church and all the images it conjures (e.g. Gnosticism, exclusiveness) towards engaging with other views, not as something to be feared, but in a dialogue where we have something to learn from those of different cultural, faith and spiritual paradigms. Tomlinson believes that the church can pull itself back from entrenched positions to address peoples' spiritual needs in an era of growing spiritual interest, without seeing them only as potential converts but instead as people in God's image. This position is neatly articulated in this view of the gospel's role in the 21st century: "...caring for the earth, making poverty history, combating the AIDS pandemic, supporting fair trade, making peace instead of war, creating social justice, eliminating corruption, and opposing prejudice and bigotry are all gospel concerns."

Re-Enchanting Christianity is a gem, and well worth reading.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A great follow-up, 7 Sep 2008
By D. H. Mellows (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Dave Tomlinson's book The Post Evangelical was hugely influential, helping many Christians to face their doubts and find a pathway forward. Re-enchanting Christianity is a great follow-up. The first book perhaps represented Tomlinson's disenchantment. This new book offers a positive and vibrant message of hope. People may be less religious now, but they are as spiritual as ever. Tomlinson challenges the church to rise to this challenge and provide a place where spiritually hungry people can come with doubts and questions, feel accepted as they are, and become part of a community that is learning, growing, caring, and sharing in a journey of spiritual discovery.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Homesteading, not pioneering..., 19 Nov 2008
By Simon Hall (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews
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The Post-Evangelical is one of the most important Christian books of the last quarter-century. The title itself was probably the most important thing, but that was enough: it created a new intellectual space in which one of the most dynamic religious movements in the west is now thriving. In short, it was a pioneering book.

Re-enchanting Christianity is not a pioneering book. It is comfy, safe, a bit like sitting in a favourite old armchair with your best friends surrounding you. And that is no surprise when most of the sources contained in the book come from the previous century.

The best way I can explain my dissatisfaction is by recounting my own experiences as an attender of a radical church group called The Nine O'clock Service. The leader of the church was training to be a priest at the same time that I was studying theology as an undergraduate, and I soon began to notice that he was regurgitating his lectures in a highly unsatisfying manner. There was neither critical reflection on what was clearly new material for him, nor was there any imaginative development or application. I was surprised to see someone I deeply respected swallowing a worldview so uncritically. His neophilia eventually resulted in what I consider to have been a theological dead end.

This book feels similar. By making extensive use of liberal theologians the book may have academic credibility, but lacks any creative spark: it feels too much like a literature review (some chapters make almost exclusive use of one text, rather like a bad undergraduate essay). In addition, these sources - which may be new to many evangelicals, but are far from new to any student of theology - do not suffer the same level of criticism as the evangelical ideas the book seeks to supplant.

Many of the theologians quoted reflect the apotheosis of liberal theology (Moltmann, for example), but surely Dave Tomlinson is aware that there is now a movement called post-liberalism which questions the foundations of the liberal project just as he is questioning the foundations of evangelicalism?

I would recommend this book for any person who can use their own critical faculties and who has not studied theology themselves. However, you would probably be better going straight to Moltmann, Brueggemann et al and bypassing this book altogether.

There's nothing wrong with this book. It just doesn't take us any where new (maybe my expectations were too high?). Having done his pioneering, Dave Tomlinson has found his new home and is busy settling down.
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