Christian Theology For A Secular Society

Author : Jürgen Moltmann,Margaret Kohl
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451411960

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God for a Secular Society by Jürgen Moltmann,Margaret Kohl Pdf

In this masterful analysis of the religious and political dilemmas at the end of the modern age, world-renowned theologian J rgen Moltmann assays the vaulting dreams and colossal failures of our time. He asks how we came to this point, and he argues strenuously for Christian discipleship and public theology that take sides. In both critical and creative ways he advances the specific relevance of Christian messianic hope to today's thorniest political, economic, and ecological questions-including human rights, environmental rights, globalization, market capitalism, fundamentalisms, and Jewish-Christian relations-and the deeper values contested therein.In a world reeling between utopia and disaster, Moltmann here passionately and provacatively shows how Christian discipleship, through engagement and solidarity, can blaze a redemptive path.

Author : Fred Campbell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780595000388

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Religious Integrity for Everyone by Fred Campbell Pdf

In the secular culture that is emerging to dominate our world it is important to maintain religious integrity and vitality. Christianity has become one of many religions and only one source of value among others. Therefore this proposal creates a set of functional definitions for religious ideas and concerns.

Author : Mark G. McKim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597528290

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Christian Theology for a Secular Society by Mark G. McKim Pdf

It's hard to be the only one. That single sentence from a teenage congregant sums up the conviction that motivated Christian Theology for a Secular Society. In these dying days of Christendom, the reality that most Western Christians face is living out their faith as a minority in the midst of a culture that is at every level--personal, institutional, and societal--secular in nature. While most living in Western societies still affirm belief in God and often other vaguely recognizable Christian beliefs, these affirmations frequently have little to do with how daily life is lived. The idea that the God best known to us in Jesus Christ is actually in charge of life is foreign. For most, Christianity simply does not form an overarching system of meaning that shapes life. Instead, life is lived largely without reference to God. And to live any other way is often hard. In this volume, Mark McKim sets out to do theology in this context. How does one explain the core historic Christian doctrines in a way that makes sense in a secular culture--and in a way that will gain a hearing? What does it mean to be the church in this new situation? Throughout, McKim asks the question, so what? as he relates Christian teachings to a secular society and to what is actually happening in the local church. McKim's goal is to enable the singing of the Lord's song in the new and strange land of a secular society.

Author : Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Church and the world
ISBN : UOM:39076005355412

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Religion in Secular Society by Bryan R. Wilson Pdf

Author : Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry
Publisher : Multnomah Pub
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0880700416

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The Christian Mindset in a Secular Society by Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry Pdf

Author : Stefanie Knauss,Alexander D. Ornella
Publisher : Alexander Darius Ornella
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783825807757

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Reconfigurations by Stefanie Knauss,Alexander D. Ornella Pdf

From "Once Upon a Time in the West" to "Moulin Rouge", from Ghanaian video-movies to Japanese Manga, from Christian symbolism in advertising to the mythic significance of female messiah figures, from the relationship of the arts and theology to the role of the audience in the meaningmaking process, this book provides a feast for anyone wanting to explore the interconnectivity of religion, media and society.

Author : Robert A. Markus
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780268162030

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Christianity and the Secular by Robert A. Markus Pdf

The history of Christianity has been marked by tension between ideas of sacred and secular, their shifting balance, and their conflict. In Christianity and the Secular, Robert A. Markus examines the place of the secular in Christianity, locating the origins of the concept in the New Testament and early Christianity and describing its emergence as a problem for Christianity following the recognition of Christianity as an established religion, then the officially enforced religion, of the Roman Empire. Markus focuses especially on the new conditions engendered by the Christianization of the Roman Empire. In the period between the apostolic age and Constantine, the problem of the relation between Christianity and secular society and culture was suppressed for the faithful; Christians saw themselves as sharply distinct in, if not separate from, the society of their non-Christian fellows. Markus argues that when the autonomy of the secular realm came under threat in the Christianised Roman Empire after Constantine, Christians were forced to confront the problem of adjusting themselves to the culture and society of the new regime. Markus identifies Augustine of Hippo as the outstanding critic of the ideology of a Christian empire that had developed by the end of the fourth century and in the time of the Theodosian emperors, and as the principal defender of a place for the secular within a Christian interpretation of the world and of history. Markus traces the eclipse of this idea at the end of antiquity and during the Christian Middle Ages, concluding with its rehabilitation by Pope John XXIII and the second Vatican Council. Of interest to scholars of religion, theology, and patristics, Markus's genealogy of an authentic Christian concept of the secular is sure to generate widespread discussion.

Author : Rebecca Pippert,Ruth Siemens
Publisher : LifeBuilder Bible Study
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-12
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1859994849

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Evangelism by Rebecca Pippert,Ruth Siemens Pdf

How do we get to the point of discussing Jesus Christ with our friends? With strangers? How can we overcome our fears and insecurities about sharing the gospel? This study guide, centred on the example of Jesus and the early evangelists, encourages readers to communicate their faith creatively and clearly.

Author : David Zahl
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506449449

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Seculosity by David Zahl Pdf

At the heart of our current moment lies a universal yearning, writes David Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough--what religions call "righteous." To fill the void left by religion, we look to all sorts of everyday activities--from eating and parenting to dating and voting--for the identity, purpose, and meaning once provided on Sunday morning. In our striving, we are chasing a sense of enoughness. But it remains ever out of reach, and the effort and anxiety are burning us out. Seculosity takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American "performancism" and its cousins, highlighting both their ingenuity and mercilessness, all while challenging the conventional narrative of religious decline. Zahl unmasks the competing pieties around which so much of our lives revolve, and he does so in a way that's at points playful, personal, and incisive. Ultimately he brings us to a fresh appreciation for the grace of God in all its countercultural wonder.

Author : Wolfhart Pannenberg
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015022201084

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Christianity in a Secularized World by Wolfhart Pannenberg Pdf

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725230194

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Honest Religion for Secular Man by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

"Religion is much too great and permanent an element in human experience to be swept out of sight," writes Bishop Newbigin. "I want to ask what must be the religion of a Christian who accepts the process of secularization and lives fully in the kine of world into which God has led us." His answer involves relating the universal fact of secularization to the biblical picture of the nature and destiny of man. It involves, too, some criticism of recent Christian responses to secularization - but the whole tone of this book is positive. The emphasis is on knowing God, being God's people, and living of God in the midst of the secular.

Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0822317168

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Dispatches from the Front by Stanley Hauerwas Pdf

God knows it is hard to make God boring, Stanley Hauerwas writes, but American Christians, aided and abetted by theologians, have accomplished that feat. Whatever might be said about Hauerwas--and there is plenty--no one has ever accused him of being boring, and in this book he delivers another jolt to all those who think that Christian theology is a matter of indifference to our secular society. At once Christian theology and social criticism, this book aims to show that the two cannot be separated. In this spirit, Hauerwas mounts a forceful attack on current sentimentalities about the significance of democracy, the importance of the family, and compassion, which appears here as a literally fatal virtue. In this time of the decline of religious knowledge, when knowing a little about a religion tends to do more harm than good, Hauerwas offers direction to those who would make Christian discourse both useful and truthful. Animated by a deep commitment, his essays exhibit the difference that Christian theology can make in the shaping of lives and the world.

Author : Phillip Everett Hammond
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520053435

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The Sacred in a Secular Age by Phillip Everett Hammond Pdf

"Society for the Scientific Study of Religion." Includes bibliographies and index.

Author : Elaine Graham
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334045984

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Elaine Graham Pdf

Public theology is an increasingly important area of theological discourse with strong global networks of institutions and academics involved in it. Elaine Graham is one of the UK's leading theologians and an established SCM author. In this book, Elaine Graham argues that Western society is entering an unprecedented political and cultural era, in which many of the assumptions of classic sociological theory and of mainstream public theology are being overturned. Whilst many of the features of the trajectory of religious decline, typical of Western modernity, are still apparent, there are compelling and vibrant signs of religious revival, not least in public life and politics - local, national and global. This requires a revision of the classic secularization thesis, as well as much Western liberal political theory, which set out separate or at least demarcated terms of engagement between religion and the public domain. Elaine Graham examines claims that Western societies are moving from 'secular' to 'post-secular' conditions and traces the contours of the 'post-secular': the revival of faith-based engagement in public sphere alongside the continuing - perhaps intensifying - questioning of the legi¬timacy of religion in public life. She argues that public theology must rethink its theological and strategic priorities in order to be convincing in this new 'post-secular' world and makes the case for the renewed prospects for public theology as a form of Christian apologetics, drawing from Biblical, classical and contemporary sources.

Author : Frank Russell Barry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : UCAL:$B689333

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Secular and Supernatural by Frank Russell Barry Pdf