Paper Boys - Introduction

Modern Western culture, rather like the Roman Empire at the time of Jesus, offers many good things while being profoundly problematic for true Christian faith. Evangelicalism, however, has often defined itself in remarkably modern and Western terms: seeing faith as individualistic, rational and goal-driven. As modernity now disintegrates into moral and ethical chaos, where does that leave evangelicalism? Viv Thomas suggests, with a generous spirit and a lightness of touch, that it leaves evangelicalism forced back on to rich Christian traditions of trinitarian spirituality. This invitation to join the dance will not - should not - be easy reading, but it may just be a word of life at the right time to those stranded in the 'thin and brittle' wasteland of the modern world. Dr. Richard Briggs, Cranmer Hall, Durham