After McDonaldization
Mission, Ministry, and Christian Discipleship in an Age of Uncertainty
by John Drane
Paperback
Price: £11.95
Publisher:DLT (Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd)
Published:21 April 2008
ISBN:978-0-232-52654-7
GoodBookStall Review:
John Drane is an internationally respected biblical scholar, best known for his book The McDonaldization of the Church. After McDonaldization is its sequel. Culture, community, mission, ministry and theology are the chapter headings. It’s a chatty, personal book which combines a rigorous analysis of the problem with an insistence that the solutions are not grand ones but rather a new determination to live in small, human, connected ways, following Jesus not by defining ourselves as members of an organisation but by embracing the conviction that faithfulness is defined as a close walk with the Master. The core business of the church, he suggests, is nothing less than transformation; that is what we must live, and that is what we must offer.
Alison Morgan, (www.alisonmorgan.co.uk)
Reviewer: Guest reviewer (28/05/08)
John Drane is an internationally respected biblical scholar, best known for his book The McDonaldization of the Church. After McDonaldization is its sequel. Culture, community, mission, ministry and theology are the chapter headings. It’s a chatty, personal book which combines a rigorous analysis of the problem with an insistence that the solutions are not grand ones but rather a new determination to live in small, human, connected ways, following Jesus not by defining ourselves as members of an organisation but by embracing the conviction that faithfulness is defined as a close walk with the Master. The core business of the church, he suggests, is nothing less than transformation; that is what we must live, and that is what we must offer.
Alison Morgan, (www.alisonmorgan.co.uk)
Reviewer: Guest reviewer (28/05/08)
