Winsome Persuasion - by Tim Muehlhoff & Richard Langer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>The task of bearing faithful witness to Jesus in our post-Christian society is complicated. What should our interactions with the dominant cultural ethos look like? How might we be both persuasive and civil? Integrating communications and theology, this model for cultural engagement offers a compelling vision of public engagement that is both shrewd and gracious.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><ul> <li> <em>Christianity Today's</em> 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Apologetics/Evangelism</li> </ul><p> <strong>How are Christians viewed in the broader culture?</strong> We blush at the possibilities. Brainwashed fanatics? Out-of-touch dogmatists? Buffoons? The task of bearing faithful witness to Jesus is complicated by persistent--and not altogether baseless--cultural stereotypes. In our post-Christian society, thoughtful Christians are considering again how to engage the dominant culture as a minority, a counterpublic, amid varying perceptions and misperceptions. In this timely book, Timothy Muehlhoff and Rick Langer ask what our interactions with the dominant cultural ethos should look like. How might we be persuasive and civil at the same time? How should we respond to those who ridicule and caricature us? How can we challenge the beliefs of other communities with love and respect? Muehlhoff and Langer present a model for cultural engagement that integrates communication theory, theology, and Scripture. Penetrating, wise, and relentlessly practical, it includes test cases and examples from history, such as William Wilberforce and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Now more than ever, Christians need what <em>Winsome Persuasion</em> offers: a compelling vision of public engagement that is both shrewd and gracious.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><i>Winsome Persuasion</i> is timely and a much-needed tool that offers practical, common-sense ground rules to those wishing to engage effectively in the public square as well as a comforting sense of structure that offsets the sense of disorientation commonly experienced in public dialogue.</p>--Catherine T. Arnsperger with Glenn R. Kreider, Bibliotheca Sacra, July-September 2019<br><br><p>If we're going to engage the public effectively on LGBT issues--or other hotly contested social issues--we need to think through the kinds of issues <em>Winsome Persuasion</em> so deftly examines.</p>--George P. Wood, Influence Magazine, June 2017<br><br><p>Too many books simply make assumptions about secular modern culture and about the way that we need to respond. Muehlhoff and Langer take the necessary step of analyzing the way that culture works, especially with regard to media and social issues, and their deft analysis generates significant insights. The authors apply orthodox Christian principles to hot-button issues without being shrill or partisan. In so doing, they model what the book strives to teach.</p>--Holly Ordway, Christianity Today, December 13, 2017<br>
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