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Title: SoulTsunami by Leonard Sweet ISBN: 0310243122 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27
Rating: 5
Summary: A gyroscope for the postmodern church
Comment: I purchased Leonard Sweet's SoulTsunami looking for a "road map" to postmodern culture. What I got was a gyroscope. But a road map is useless to one adrift in the strange and disturbing waters of postmodernism. That's exactly where we are, church, and that's precisely why we need a new tool - a gyroscope, not a road map -- to navigate through these uncharted waters.
The terra firma of the modern world has given way to the fluid, amorphous culture of postmodernism. It is an ocean on which the "old ship of Zion" must set sail. This book's subtitle, "Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture," aptly sums up the challenge postmodernism presents to the church.
SoulTsunami is engaging (who could tell from Sweet's straightforward writing style that he's actually an academic?), comprehensive (well researched and chock full of facts), and disturbing (especially, for me, Life Ring #5, "Get Bionomic," a fascinating and soul-agitating glimpse into our future). Yet Sweet's appraisal of the postmodern predicament is honest and right on target. Approach this book with an open mind, accept Sweet's challenges (even if you don't agree with everything he says), and be prepared to "get over" any pre-conceived ideas of how the Christian faith ought to be.
SoulTsunami should be on the reading list of every pastor, cell group leader, choir member, church organist, youth minister/worker, and pew-warmer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fresh Winds For the Church's Sails
Comment: Sweet's soulTsunami is brimming full of creative energy for the church. Study and rumination over this book is crucial for any pastor, any Christian, any seeker of truth. Sweet articulates with such wit, quirkiness, and perception what postmoderns have been feeling in their hearts. I found myself in resounding agreement with each page, as well as provoked towards new thinking. The strength in this book lies in the "double-rings" and paradoxes (i.e. p. 89 "the problem with the church today is that it is 'too traditional'; the problem with the church today is that it is not traditional enough.")Sweet hits the nail on the head when he persuades us to remember that the same gospel message must be continually shaped to reach a new way of thinking that pervades our age. This can only happen by knowing and redeeming the culture. Thank you Leonard, for your prophetic inspiration. This book has become a part of me.
Rating: 3
Summary: SoulTsunami - not such a big wave
Comment: Unlike many books on postmodernism, SoulTsunami gives most time to dealing with ministry implications rather than analysing postmodernism. This practical bent is welcome.
However, Sweet is prone to 'go with the flow' in terms of doing anything to accommodate ministry and church life to the cultural shift. In this sense I found the book too pragmatic in places and with too little obvious theological underpinning.
Another minus: Sweet does not seem to grapple with the issue of overlapping and intersecting cultures. That is, he seems to assume a total postmodern environment rather than recognise that modernism and postmodernism often live alongside one another in the broader culture, in a church (especially intergenerationally)and even within an individual.
So, surprise surprise the book has limits. However, for those struggling to find some starting places in ministry in a postmodern culture the book offers much.
Finally, the 'life-rings' structure for the book and the 'Say What' sections that throw out suggestions, questions, activities etc give the design of the book a thoroughly post-modern feel. Before being irritated by this, readers do well to appreciate that even in this design feature the book is helping them to grapple with the postmodern.
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Title: Post-Modern Pilgrims: First Century Passion for the 21st Century Church by Leonard Sweet ISBN: 0805421378 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: 15 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: AquaChurch: Essential Leadership Arts for Piloting Your Church in Today's Fluid Culture by Leonard I. Sweet ISBN: 0764421514 Publisher: Group Publishing Inc Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Carpe Mañana by Leonard Sweet ISBN: 0310239478 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: SoulSalsa by Leonard Sweet ISBN: 0310242800 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: More Ready Than You Realize by Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 0310239648 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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