The Next Evangelicalism, SoongChan Rah
The Next Evangelicalism, SoongChan Rah
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The Next Evangelicalism
Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity

Author: Soong-Chan Rah

Narrator: Soong-Chan Rah

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2022


Synopsis

The future is now. Philip Jenkins has chronicled how the next Christendom has shifted away from the Western church toward the global South and East. Likewise, changing demographics mean that North American society will accelerate its diversity in terms of race, ethnicity and culture. But evangelicalism has long been held captive by its predominantly white cultural identity and history.

In this book professor and pastor Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its captivity to Western cultural trappings and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. Rah brings keen analysis to the limitations of American Christianity and shows how captivity to Western individualism and materialism has played itself out in megachurches and emergent churches alike. Many white churches are in crisis and ill-equipped to minister to new cultural realities, but immigrant, ethnic and multiethnic churches are succeeding and flourishing.

This prophetic report casts a vision for a dynamic evangelicalism that fully embodies the cultural realities of the twenty-first century. Spiritual renewal is happening within the North American church, from corners and margins not always noticed by those in the center. Come, discover the vitality of the next evangelicalism.

About Soong-Chan Rah

Soong-Chan Rah is Robert Munger Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Previously, he served as Milton B. Engebretson Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of Prophetic Lament, The Next Evangelicalism, and Many Colors, as well as coauthor of Unsettling Truths, Forgive Us, and Return to Justice.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on July 08, 2014

There is something wrong with much of American evangelicalism in its current form. Many churches are declining. We have moral scandals. Evangelicalism continues to splinter into weird offshoots like the emergent church and various other post-modern expressions. And many quarters of society hear the......more

Goodreads review by Corey on March 01, 2017

In his book, “The Next Evangelicalism,” Soong-Chan Rah develops the argument that the church in America is held captive to western culture. The church in America is indubitably controlled by white, western, evangelicals. The problem with this captivity, according to Rah, is that the American is more......more

Goodreads review by Jodie on September 12, 2018

I LOVED this book, and I know I will return to it again and again. So many helpful insights into the Western, white captivity of the church with an emphasis on the need for whites to accept spiritual leadership from non-whites, to realize we have so much to learn from people of color--to recognize a......more

Goodreads review by Andy on August 14, 2016

A very good book. I would recommend it to every Christian on the earth today.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 03, 2018

This is a very interesting and challenging book about how to face the reality of the changing racial composition of the Christian church and provide it ethical, effective, spirit-filled leadership. It's call for leadership of second-gen immigrants and bi-racial people in the next phase of the North......more