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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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Theology
Année: 2011, Volume: 114, Numéro: 2, Pages: 108-119 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Fresh Expressions
B Church B Ministry B Postmodernity B Mission |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Électronique
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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X10391844 |