__"A timely and significant resource"__   
"We are embedded in and pervaded by what Charles Taylor called a 'secular age.' The implications of Taylor's analysis of secularity are enormous, but few have taken up the challenge to look through Taylor at ministry in our world. Andrew Root has, and he has done so successfully and spectacularly. We need to take up the challenge with Root, listen to him, and extend his insights into our local churches."  
--__Scot McKnight__, Northern Seminary  
  
"This highly readable book is a must-read for anyone preparing for pastoral ministry or currently in ministry. Root encourages pastors to reclaim an identity based on their participation in God's acts of ministry. It is in these very acts of ministry that a window is opened to the transcendent and ministering God in a secular age."  
--__Annette Brownlee__, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto  
  
"Good books help you see what you couldn't see before--like why pastoring is so difficult. Better books help you see the work of God despite the millennia of obstacles we have thrown up against divine agency. Root thinks the living God can break through our pastoral malaise. Reading him, I found myself not only agreeing but learning and delighting and looking anew for the God who pastors us all."  
--__Jason Byassee__, Vancouver School of Theology  
  
"In a world longing for enchantment but too cynical to accept it, pastors can understandably feel irrelevant and confused. Root provides a helpful overview of how our world became so disenchanted and what it might look like to attend to God in a world that has forgotten how to do so."  
--__Danielle Shroyer__, spiritual director and author  
  
"Drawing from his in-depth understanding of Charles Taylor's philosophical insight, and utilizing case studies of pastors from history and the present, Root offers a compelling portrait of a fresh and invigorating way to approach the vocation of ministry. This is a timely and significant resource for churches, seminaries, and pastors, a vision for ministering in the immanent frame."  
--__Kyle Roberts__, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities

__Andrew Root__ (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books, including Faith Formation in a Secular Age, Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker, The Children of Divorce, Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, and Relationships Unfiltered, and the coauthor (with Kenda Creasy Dean) of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry.

__Academy of Parish Clergy 2020 Top Ten Book for Parish Ministry__   
In Faith Formation in a Secular Age, the first book in his Ministry in a Secular Age trilogy, Andrew Root offered an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulated how faith can be formed in our secular age. In The Pastor in a Secular Age, Root explores how this secular age has impacted the identity and practice of the pastor, obscuring his or her core vocation: to call and assist others into the experience of ministry.  
  
Using examples of pastors throughout history--from Augustine and Jonathan Edwards to Martin Luther King Jr. and Nadia Bolz-Weber--Root shows how pastors have both perpetuated and responded to our secular age. Root turns to Old Testament texts and to the theology of Robert Jenson to explain how pastors can regain the important role of attending to people's experiences of divine action, offering a new vision for pastoral ministry today.  
  
This is the second book in Root's Ministry in a Secular Age series.

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.

__Contents__ Introduction  
__Part 1: Welcome to the Pastoral Malaise__ 1. A Historical Map of the Pastor in Our Secular Age  
2. The Lifting Fog of Enchantment: Thomas Becket and Pastoring in a Disenchanted Age 3. Keeping Enchantment from Flaring Up: Pastoring to Private People 4. The Force Field of the Buffer: Augustine and Pastoring to Selves 5. When Ordinary Life Becomes So Much More Than Ordinary: Jonathan Edwards and Pastoring to Those Who Don't Care 6. When a Pastor Was America's Greatest Celebrity: Henry Ward Beecher and Pastoring by Personality 7. The Pastor as Chaplain of a Secular Age: Harry Emerson Fosdick and Pastoring at the End of the Denomination 8. When Purpose Becomes Mine and Authenticity Becomes King: Rick Warren and Pastoring in a Post-Durkheimian Age __Bridge: Winter Lectures in Paris__ 9. Foucault and the Rise of Pastoral Power  
__Part 2: The God Who Is a Ministering Pastor__ 10. The Weird God of Israel Who Arrives  
11. Encountering a Speaking God Who Identifies with Events  
12. A Run into the Wild: Meeting the Ministering God Who Sees 13. Say My Name, Say My Name: The God of Exodus 14. When Dry Bones Live Again: The God of Resurrection 15. Invisible Gorillas and the Practice of Prayer  
Index

Root, Andrew

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Academy of Parish Clergy 2020 Top Ten Book for Parish Ministry  
  
In Faith Formation in a Secular Age, the first book in his Ministry in a Secular Age trilogy, Andrew Root offered an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulated how faith can be formed in our secular age. In The Pastor in a Secular Age, Root explores how this secular age has impacted the identity and practice of the pastor, obscuring his or her core vocation: to call and assist others into the experience of ministry.  
  
Using examples of pastors throughout history--from Augustine and Jonathan Edwards to Martin Luther King Jr. and Nadia Bolz-Weber--Root shows how pastors have both perpetuated and responded to our secular age. Root turns to Old Testament texts and to the theology of Robert Jenson to explain how pastors can regain the important role of attending to people's experiences of divine action, offering a new vision for pastoral ministry today.  
  
This is the second book in Root's Ministry in a Secular Age series.

\["For Church leaders","This book shops how to make a difference in secular times","You'll find principles drawn from leaders who transformed countless lives "\]

Drawing on leadership examples from history, Andrew Root explores ministry for people who no longer need God

The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2)

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