Living Out of Control: Political and Personal Faith in Waning Christendom

by Rodney Clapp

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2025

Overview

Living Out of Control is an inviting exploration of how American Christians can respond most graciously, effectively, and faithfully to our political situation amid waning Christendom. This Christendom is diminished but not dead, and many Christians despair of that reality and dream of the reassertion of Christendom. Clapp argues that Christians (like Jews) have often lived out of control: in fact, the Bible largely pictures circumstances in which followers of the God of Israel were . Including a critical chapter on the most pressing and dramatic proponents of Christendom's reassertion (Christian nationalism), the book depicts how we may now best live as Christians--without the reassertion of Christendom. It attempts to spark and remold our imaginations, with hopeful chapters on prefigurative politics, the Christian anarchic tendency, friendship, and resonance. Short and eminently accessible, it aims to be widely read and reread, almost as a handbook to form and reform imagination.

Product Details

• Title: Living Out of Control: Political and Personal Faith in Waning Christendom
• Author: Rodney Clapp
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 135
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBN: 9798889832256
• Resource ID: LLS:9798889832256
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T18:16:46Z

About Rodney Clapp

Rodney R. Clapp is a Christian editor and author. He was an associate editor for Christianity Today and until 1999 was the senior editor for academic and general books at InterVarsity Press. He is now an editor with Brazos Press.