Religious Naturalism and the Future of Christianity
Abstract. Loyal Rue suggests that religion is not about God as such but about the cultivation of personal and social well-being. Religion may employ cultural resources that include concepts of supernatural agencies, but religion's essential functionalities are not dependent on that particular r...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
2007
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Zygon
Year: 2007, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 317-342 |
Further subjects: | B
Sacrifice
B Christianity B ecological collapse B Sacramentality B religious naturalism |
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Summary: | Abstract. Loyal Rue suggests that religion is not about God as such but about the cultivation of personal and social well-being. Religion may employ cultural resources that include concepts of supernatural agencies, but religion's essential functionalities are not dependent on that particular resource. I largely endorse Rue's view of religion and employ Rue as a guide to thinking through its consequences for the future of Christianity. For Rue, two challenges face Christianity: the erosion of confidence in personal-god concepts and the ecological crisis engulfing the planet. In the face of these twin momentous changes, I suggest ways in which certain cultural tropes in the Christian matrix will rise to the fore and others will erode. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00317.x |