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Christianity in the twenty-first century [electronic resource] : reflections on the challenges ahead / Robert Wuthnow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 251 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780198025641 (electronic bk.)
  • 0198025645 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christianity in the twenty-first century.DDC classification:
  • 277.3/08 22
LOC classification:
  • BR526 .W88 1993eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : the future in the present -- I. Institutional challenges : community, identity, and the role of the church. Church and culture -- Can the church sustain community? -- A place for the Christian -- II. Ethical challenges : role models, stories, and learning how to care. Stories to live by -- The saints in our world -- Ethical ambivalence -- III. Doctrinal challenges : pluralism, polarity, and the character of belief. Religious orientations -- The future of fundamentalism -- Fundamentalism and its discontents -- IV. Political challenges : Christianity and conflict in the public realm. Faith and public affairs -- The future of the religious right -- Religion and symbolic politics -- V. Cultural challenges : the possibilities of faith for constructing personal lives. The quest for identity -- Maladies of the middle class -- Living the question.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-243) and index.

Introduction : the future in the present -- I. Institutional challenges : community, identity, and the role of the church. Church and culture -- Can the church sustain community? -- A place for the Christian -- II. Ethical challenges : role models, stories, and learning how to care. Stories to live by -- The saints in our world -- Ethical ambivalence -- III. Doctrinal challenges : pluralism, polarity, and the character of belief. Religious orientations -- The future of fundamentalism -- Fundamentalism and its discontents -- IV. Political challenges : Christianity and conflict in the public realm. Faith and public affairs -- The future of the religious right -- Religion and symbolic politics -- V. Cultural challenges : the possibilities of faith for constructing personal lives. The quest for identity -- Maladies of the middle class -- Living the question.

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