Reframation: Seeing God, People, and Mission Through Reenchanted Frames - Softcover

 Hirsch and Nelson bring to this book a wide reading and a deep pondering. They mobilize a rich learning to offer a telling critique of our present disenchanted world. Happily they go beyond exposé to offer a thick direction for reenchantment. They appeal to narrative (whereby we may speak and hear of one-off impossibilities), imagination (that opens new worlds beyond our control), and repentance (that may yield fresh reframing.) This is a timely book for the current flattened, frightened world in which we live.

--WALTER BRUEGGEMANN, COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
 
Packed with eye-opening and potentially life-transforming insights, this wonderfully written treasure trove of research is as intellectually engaging as it is spiritually encouraging, to say nothing of being incredibly practically helpful. Five plus out of five stars!
--GREGORY A. BOYD, AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS BOOKS INCLUDING LETTERS FROM A SKEPTIC AND CRUCIFIXION OF THE WARRIOR GOD
 
Reframation is both whimsically beautiful and stunningly thoughtful, helping the God-imagination to soar without changing or damaging the meaning of the Christian faith one iota. I am left pondering the retelling of the intersection of my own story with Scripture.
--LINDA BERGQUIST, CO-AUTHOR OF CITY SHAPED CHURCHES AND CHURCH TURNED INSIDE OUT
 
In Reframation, Hirsch and Nelson survey throw a much-needed light on the many ways we have reduced our understanding of both God and the gospel. This book is not only desperately needed by the body of Christ, but it's also vital for those outside the church who don't yet know Jesus as the Creator of all things.
--BRAD BRISCO, CO-AUTHOR OF NEXT DOOR AS IT IS IN HEAVEN AND THE MISSIONAL QUEST
 
Hirsch and Nelson walk us through a wonderfully fresh journey that opens new spaces for Christ's presence to make himself known in our lives and to the world in which we live. Amidst the struggling vineyards of mission in the West, Reframation is good fruit, ripe for this cultural moment.
--DAVID FITCH, BR LINDNER CHAIR OF EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY, NORTHERN SEMINARY, CHICAGO; AUTHOR OF FAITHFUL PRESENCE
 
In Reframation, Alan Hirsch and Mark Nelson set about to undo reductionist readings of Christianity. With C. S. Lewis, Martin Buber and Hans Urs von Balthasar acting as Sherpas, Hirsch and Nelson guide us through winding mountain paths, leading to an eventual summit vista from which we are able to take in the full grandeur of the biblical imagination.
--MARK SAYERS, AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS BOOKS INCLUDING DISAPPEARING CHURCH 
 
Read this book and you will get a fresh perspective on how to tell the story of the "good news."
--DAVE FERGUSON, LEAD VISIONARY OF NEWTHING; CO-AUTHOR OF HERO MAKER: FIVE ESSENTIAL PRACTICES FOR LEADERS TO MULTIPLY LEADERS
 
Read this book if you want to break out of a reductionistic narrative and awaken to the beauty and mystery of God and the wonder of life. Then immerse yourself in the story of Scripture afresh and enter into the vibrant adventure of joining God in the renewal of all things.
--JR WOODWARD, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF V3 MOVEMENT; AUTHOR OF CREATING A MISSIONAL CULTURE; CO-AUTHOR OF THE CHURCH AS MOVEMENT
 
Poetic, provocative, and profound ... reading this totally refreshed my passion for the gospel of Jesus that alone can change hearts and minds.
--PAUL HARCOURT, NATIONAL LEADER OF NEW WINE ENGLAND
 
As any Christian leader in North America is well aware, ours is a time of extreme cultural upheaval and polarization. The great tragedy, however, is that so many of our churches are more likely to get caught up in the turmoil than they are to transcend it by offering a compelling alternative. Reframation helps us understand why this is the case, but more importantly, it provides an insightful vision for what it will take to move beyond the reductionisms that plague our thinking and toward a more faithful future grounded in God and his mission in the world.
--DR. JR ROZKO, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF MISSIO ALLIANCE