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The pastor in a secular age : ministry to people who no longer need a God / Andrew Root.

by Root, Andrew, 1974- author.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2019]

Pastoral theology.

Non-church-affiliated people.

Christianity and culture.

Christianity -- 21st century.

9780801098475 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

0801098475 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Ministry in a secular age ; v. 2.

xxii, 291 pages ; 23 cm.

Part 1. Welcome to the pastoral malaise. A historical map of the pastor in our secular age -- The lifting fog of enchantment: Thomas Becket and pastoring in a disenchanted age -- Keeping enchantment from flaring up: pastoring to private people -- The force field of the buffer: Augustine and pastoring to selves -- When ordinary life becomes so much more than ordinary: Jonathan Edwards and pastoring to those who don't care -- When a pastor was America's greatest celebrity: Henry Ward Beecher and pastoring by personality -- The pastor as chaplain of a secular age: Harry Emerson Fosdick and pastoring at the end of the denomination -- When purpose becomes mine and authenticity becomes king: Rick Warren and pastoring in a post-Durkheimian age -- Bridge: Winter lectures in Paris. Foucault and the rise of pastoral power -- Part 2. The God who is a ministering pastor. The weird God of Israel who arrives -- Encountering a speaking God who identifies with events -- A run into the wild: meeting the ministering God who sees -- Say my name, say my name: the God of Exodus -- When dry bones live again: the God of resurrection -- Invisible gorillas and the practice of prayer.

Through an abundance of examples, this book explores how pastors have both perpetuated and responded to our secular age, and provides a new vision for pastoral ministry today.

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