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THE CHURCH AFTER INNOVATION Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship Andrew Root MINISTRY IN A SECULAR AGE The call for pastors and congregations to be innovative can have a dark side: an obsession with contemporary relevance and entre- preneurship that lacks theological depth and promises burnout and exhaustion. The Church after Innovation shines a light on the problem and offers a treatment. “This book will help you to consider the possible costs of chasing innovation and entrepreneurship—for you and your church.” —ANGELA WILLIAMS GORRELL, Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University “When Christians fall in love with ideas of leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship, we can be sure they have ignored for too long the secular economic context in which they live and breathe. A timely wake-up call.” —BRIAN BROCK, University of Aberdeen “This perceptive and engaging book is a godsend for leaders and pastors.” —NICK SHEPHERD, FRSA, Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England “With penetrating analysis and prophetic force, Root exposes how the false idols of capitalism are being smuggled into the church through the Trojan horses of innovation and entrepreneurialism. A bold, necessary, and urgent book.” —RICHARD BECK, Abilene Christian University CONTENTS 1. Only the Creative Survive: How Mission Became Married to Innovation 2. We’re All Sandwich Artists Now: Work and Backwash, Reversing a Historical Flow 3. Hungry, Hungry Markets: Workers in Contradiction, Children in Consumption 4. Let’s Get Extra: Exploring the Secular Contradiction of Capitalism 5. Leave It to Management: Managing for Permanent Innovation 6. The Viennese Worm That Exposes the True Self: When Work Becomes about Flexible Projects 7. Justification by Creative Works Alone: When Creativity Becomes King, the Self Becomes a Star 8. Why You’re Not That Special but Feel the Need to Be: Singularity and the Self 9. Standing Naked against Money 10. The Three Amigos of the Mystical Path: How the Self Is Freed from Singularity 11. Aesthetic Epiphanies, Mad Poets, and a Humble Example of What This All Looks Like Index
SEPTEMBER 2022 • 256 pp. • paper • $27.99 • 9781540964823
Andrew Root (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary. He is the author of numerous books and is the coauthor (with Kenda Creasy Dean) of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry .
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