{"product_id":"disruptive-witness-speaking-truth-in-a-distracted-age-paperback","title":"Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Noble\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2018 \u003ci\u003eWORLD Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year--Accessible Theology \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2018 \u003ci\u003eECPA\u003c\/i\u003e Top Shelf Book Cover Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e★ \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits--and devices--that distract and \"buffer\" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls \"a secular age\"--an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Taylor's work, Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people's lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherentlydisruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book Noble lays out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus. \u003ci\u003eDisruptive Witness\u003c\/i\u003e casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and cliché to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO. Alan Noble (PhD, Baylor) is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, a fellow at the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and author of \u003ci\u003eOn Getting Out of Bed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYou Are Not Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDisruptive Witness\u003c\/i\u003e. Noble has published articles at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, The Gospel Coalition, \u003ci\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his wife and three children in Oklahoma City. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 17, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45675267260460,"sku":"9780830844838","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0954\/5772\/files\/z3mhiwZ62Y9780830844838.webp?v=1781765092","url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/disruptive-witness-speaking-truth-in-a-distracted-age-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}