TY - BOOK AU - Wuthnow,Robert TI - Christianity in the twenty-first century: reflections on the challenges ahead SN - 0195079574 AV - BR526 .W88 1993eb U1 - 277.3/08 22 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Christianity KW - United States KW - Twenty-first century KW - Forecasts KW - Christendom KW - gtt KW - local N1 - Description based on print version record; 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 UR - https://archive.org/details/christianityintw0000wuth UR - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1724967M/Christianity_in_the_twenty-first_century ER -