{"product_id":"9781466997974","title":"Emerging Towards Apostasy: A Documented Effective Analysis of Post-Modern, Evangelical, and Patristic Influences upon Departing Churches of Christ","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e“There’s nothing new under the sun,”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e the wise King Solomon once said. How true! Nineteen centuries after the Gnostics drove the early church into apostasy, history is repeating itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs was the case in the second century, many in the Lord’s body in the twenty-first century are trading reason for speculation, conviction for opinion, facts for narrative, rationality for imagination, and linear truth for allegory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmerging Towards Apostasy\u003c\/strong\u003e takes you back to the distant past discovering what drives and motivates the so-called emerging church among departing churches of Christ in America today. Along the way you will come to discern how apostasy is once again being driven by post-modern philosophy, denominationalism, and an infatuation with the church fathers, the patristics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trafford Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141374263536,"sku":"9781466997974","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466997974_p0.jpg?v=1763689378","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466997974","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}