The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

    Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of our Church Practices, by Frank Viola and George Barna (Barna/Tyndale House, 2008; 291 pp.).   Frank Viola’s 2002 book Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Church Practices has kicked up some fuss since it was revised with the help of George Barna and recently released under the Barna/Tyndale imprint.   This is a ground-clearing book. Many Christians will be surprised—maybe shocked—to learn how much contemporary “Christian” practice has no biblical basis whatsoever.   The question is: So what? Is such development merely the appropriate…