Summary:
"The church after postmodernity. The core narrative of Christianity, the book that conveys it (the Bible) and the institution of the church have been marginalized by the development of modernity and post-modernity. Strangely, post-modernity created an opportunity for religious thinking and experience to re-enter many lives. Yet post-modernity is not an adequate framework for thinking about life. There is therefore an opportunity for Christians to imagine what comes after and to prepare the church for a new engagement of mission with western culture. The church, through a creative missionary imagination, can re-define western cultural life. With a boldly crafted vision this book sketches precisely that."--Publisher's description.

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:
Modernity : legacies that remain --
Postmodernity : a matrix of meanings --
Metavista : discerning the rules of engagement --
Metavista : naming the post-postmodern condition --
Cultural engagement and the refiguring of the Scriptures --
Constructing a biblical theology for cultural engagement --
Metavista : the political capital of the Bible in cultural engagement --
Deconstructing the secular imagination --
Imagining the missional community --
Reimagining a counter-cultural life --
Towards a hermeneutic of imagination.