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The incendiary fellowship

"I came to cast fire on the earth" is one of the most neglected of Jesus' sayings. In his new book, The Incendiary Fellowship, Elton Trueblood writes that the fire cast on the earth two thousand years ago by Jesus is flickering with alarming faintness. In the first place, he asserts, committed Christians do not represent the mainstream of Western culture. A new and active paganism commonly referred to as "the Playboy philosophy" is emerging -- a paganism that is both articulate and arrogant. It is absolutely vital, says Dr. Trueblood, that Christianity should again become a vibrant, fighting force. It cannot survive as a mild religion-in-general. The Church is located not in a church building or out in the world. It is in people. Unless we make a strong and conscious drive to rekindle the fire it could be quenched by the flip ridicule of the playboys of the world, who would have us play it cool. In The Incendiary Fellowship Dr. Trueblood shows how the Church can be set aflame today as it was in the first century of Christianity. - Jacket flap
Print Book, English, 1967
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Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1967
121 pages ; 22 cm
9780060686413, 0060686413
615434
Hymn: Baptism by fire
A contemporary Christian delusion
A practical starting point
Conditions of emergence
The base and the field
The incendiary purpose