Things Fall Apart?

“One of the questions this book left me with was ‘How on earth can Christians be counter-cultural if they don’t understand their culture in the first place?’ Michael Paget-Wilkes does what very few writers about the church manage to do and invites us to a genuinely theological re-examination of what we think about human beings, where credibility comes from, what we think about thinking itself and much more. A rich, provocative, hopeful study.”
—Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge University

“The call to the church to understand who we are as the baptized people of God requires courage and a significant shift in the way we organize our structures and ways of being. It is an issue with which many people are grappling and the writer’s analysis of the past and how we have arrived at the present will stimulate minds and hearts, as we live in the present looking to the future.”
—Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester

“Chinua Achebe’s seminal novel shares the same title, but without the question mark. It describes a traditional society under pressure from both internal and external forces. To an extent Michael’s wide-ranging analysis follows a similar path. But in the end he suggests possible answers based on a reimagined and reconfigured church.”
—Jonathan Taylor, President of The Booker Prize Foundation

“Here is a vision of a renewed Christianity for a new epoch. Michael Paget-Wilkes maps out a radical new paradigm for followers of Jesus Christ in the third decade of the twenty-first century. The author provides a comprehensive assessment of ways in which the Western church has been seduced by it host cultures, the challenges ahead, and the critical moves required to live more faithfully to the gospel.”
—Stephen Pickard, Executive Director, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture