Twenty-first-century shapes of the Church?
Recent years have seen a burgeoning of literature addressing the future prospects of the churches. This article analyses this material into six broad approaches, representing a range of church responses to a socio-cultural diagnosis the author terms ‘popular postmodernity’. The author argues that th...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sage
2011
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Theology
Jahr: 2011, Band: 114, Heft: 2, Seiten: 108-119 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Fresh Expressions
B Church B Ministry B Postmodernity B Mission |
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Zusammenfassung: | Recent years have seen a burgeoning of literature addressing the future prospects of the churches. This article analyses this material into six broad approaches, representing a range of church responses to a socio-cultural diagnosis the author terms ‘popular postmodernity’. The author argues that the churches’ adoption of this diagnosis is sociologically unsophisticated in a similar way to their earlier handling of the ‘secularization’ thesis. He cites examples from the literature to propose that the churches need to engage more critically with questions of socio-cultural analysis, ecclesiology and the status of orthodoxy in developing their new strategies for mission and ministry. |
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ISSN: | 2044-2696 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X10391844 |