The Human Church

The church doesnt need to be more spiritual. It needs to become more human. Since God decided becoming human was right so must the church. Jesus language was consistently understood by nonreligious people. Elitist in-house church language may never reach the growing number of Americans without a religious background who have given up on God.This book views the church as a unique people-group and the reader as an anthropologist. Employing basic ethnographic methods the reader looks at the church again for the first time without a religious lens. Based upon the premise that all good theology emerges from good anthropology the book first considers the rituals celebrated around the symbols of a manger cross bread wine and tomb. Such symbols then become the basis for theological interpretation.Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the readers conversation partner to help make the theological journey from human community to church manger to incarnation cross to redemption and tomb to resurrection.The church will flourish in the twenty-first century to the degree that it proclaims the Gospel using nonreligious language with a human accent.