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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Главный автор: Williams, John (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Sage 2011
В: Theology
Год: 2011, Том: 114, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 108-119
Другие ключевые слова:B Fresh Expressions
B Church
B Миссия (международное право)
B Ministry
B Postmodernity
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Итог: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.
ISSN:2044-2696
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040571X10391844