{"product_id":"a-post-christendom-faith-tradition-awakening-9781481321716","title":"A Post-Christendom Faith: Tradition Awakening","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTradition Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e, volume 2 of \u003ci\u003eA Post-Christendom Faith\u003c\/i\u003e, Philip Rolnick presents an innovative account of tradition as a countercultural remedy to contemporary deracination. Where the historical roots of current problems were addressed in volume 1, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Battle for the Human Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, this volume is an in-depth development of the solution--the still-untapped possibilities of tradition, defined as \u003ci\u003ea community sustained over generations of time\u003c\/i\u003e. Because the church is the intergenerational messenger of the gospel, it must take the form of tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in contrast to a stodgy \"traditionalism,\" Rolnick elaborates a \u003ci\u003etraditioning process\u003c\/i\u003e, a dynamic interaction of \"dwelling in and breaking out,\" borrowing Michael Polanyi's phrase. It is impossible even to begin advanced human life without first dwelling in what is already known; but once the tradition is handed over to newcomers, they will emphasize and deemphasize and sometimes creatively break out into new skills and understandings. Demonstrating the dual stability and creativity of the traditioning process, Rolnick presents the church as both an enclave and an outpost: an enclave fellowship where the gospel is learned and Christ is experienced; and an outpost for evangelism. Through these functions the church attempts to deepen faith in those who have it and to awaken faith in those who do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRolnick then explores the interrelationship between the gospel in the greater church and the \"domestic church,\" the human family--itself a tradition. As part of a protracted critique of autonomy, the growing phenomenon of \"spiritual but not religious\" is examined as a foil to tradition. In education and across the public square our post-Christendom civilization has become vulnerable to virulent pathologies. But alerted to the high stakes of contemporary struggles, the church and the family can bolster their own strength, their members' spiritual health, and indirectly exert a medicinal influence on the ailments of late modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eTradition Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e is not just about God; it is also a Christian humanism--a vision of humanity elevated by divine input.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip A. Rolnick is Professor of Theology and Chair of the Science and Theology Network at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eOrigins: God, Evolution, and the Question of the Cosmos\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePerson, Grace, and God\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAnalogical Possibilities: How Words Refer to God\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Post-Christendom Faith I: The Long Battle for the Human Soul\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Baylor University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690609672466,"sku":"9781481321716","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6a421413-73f8-4d9a-899e-872e33129ba1.jpg?v=1761741399","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-post-christendom-faith-tradition-awakening-9781481321716","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}