Christianity in the post secular west / edited by John Stenhouse and Brett Knowles.
Material type: TextPublication details: Adelaide : ATF Press, 21 cm.Description: xv, 290 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 1920691758 (pbk.)
- 270.82 22
- BR121.3
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book: Standard | Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre | Main | BR121.3 .C47 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 08-969 |
Essays.
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Companion volume to: The future of Christianity : historical, sociological, political and theological perspectives from New Zealand / edited by John Stenhouse and Brett Knowles ; assisted by Antony Wood.
Includes bibliographical references.
Companion volume to: The future of Christianity : historical, sociological, political and theological perspectives from New Zealand / edited by John Stenhouse and Brett Knowles ; assisted by Antony Wood.
Introduction / John Stenhouse -- Section 1. Secularisation : problems and prospects. Secularisation : master narrative or several stories? / David Martin. Secularisation and the future of Christianity : lessons from the American experience / Robert Wuthnow. Continuities in Christian culture : a reply to Callum Brown / Bernice Martin. Post-secularism, or problematising the secular / C. John Sommerville. What hath science wrought? Science and secularisation revisited / Ronald L. Numbers. Human rights and religious traditions / Nirmala Pillay -- Section 2. Spirituality and the future. The spirituality revolution and the process of reconfessionalisation in the West today / William M. Johnston. Civil religion : parallel development or replacement for traditional Christianity? / Richard V. Pierard. Pentecostalism and the Christian future / Brett Knowles. Will we find Church in a future New Zealand? / Kevin Ward -- Section 3. The churches, laypeople and theology. Persistant Presbyterianism? Lay leadership and the future of the reformed tradition / John Roxborogh. Church, kingdom and the moral concerns of modernity / Robert Gascoigne. Christian faith in the god of possibility / Albert C. Moore.
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