{"product_id":"the-church-after-innovation-questioning-our-obsession-with-work-creativity-and-entrepreneurship-9781540964823","title":"The Church After Innovation: Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship","description":"Churches and their leaders have innovation fever. Innovation seems exciting--a way to enliven tired institutions, embrace creativity, and be proactive--and is a superstar of the business world. But this focus on innovation may be caused by an obsession with contemporary relevance, creativity, and entrepreneurship that inflates the self, lacks theological depth, and promises burnout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this follow-up to \u003ci\u003eChurches and the Crisis of Decline\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eleading practical theologian Andrew Root delves into the problems of innovation. He explores where innovation and entrepreneurship came from, shows how they break into church circles, and counters the \"new imaginations\" like neoliberalism and technology that hold the church captive to modernity. Root reveals the moral visions of the self that innovation and entrepreneurship deliver--they are dependent on workers (and consumers) being obsessed with their selves, which leads to significant faith-formation issues. This focus on innovation also causes us to think we need to be singularly unique instead of made alive in Christ. Root offers a return to mysticism and the poetry of Meister Eckhart as a healthier spiritual alternative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baker Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781540964823","brand":"Andrew Root","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42303854280885,"sku":"9781540964823","price":23.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a32d9c22-6c84-490b-91c8-42a41bd5b9a1.jpg?v=1658842780","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-church-after-innovation-questioning-our-obsession-with-work-creativity-and-entrepreneurship-9781540964823","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}