The End Of Christendom And The Future Of Christianity

Author : Douglas John Hall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579109845
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity written by Douglas John Hall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this book is that the Christian movement can indeed have a significant future - one that will be faithful to the original vision of the movement and of immense service to our beleaguered world. But to have that future, Christians will have to stop trying to have the kind of future that sixteen centuries of official Christianity in the Western world has conditioned them to covet. Douglas John Hall examines the decline and fall of Christendom and looks at ecclesiastical responses to the end of Christendom. He proposes that the churches make their disestablishment work for good and describes how the Christian movement might serve dominant societies, classes, and institutions in a post-Christian era.

Author : Malcolm Muggeridge
Publisher : Wipf and Stock
ISBN 13 : 9781592442713
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Christendom written by Malcolm Muggeridge and published by Wipf and Stock. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas J. Curry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198033325
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Christendom written by Thomas J. Curry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Curry argues that discussion and interpretation of the First Amendment have reached a point of deep crisis. Historical scholarship dealing with the background and interpretation of the Amendment are at an impasse, and judicial interpretation is in a state of disarray. Here, Curry provides a new paradigm for the understanding and exploration of religious liberty, contending that much of the present confusion can be traced to habits of mind that persist from Christendom and inevitably draw government into religious matters. The First Amendment, however, was meant to be a departure from the thinking that had preceded it for nearly fifteen hundred years. Curry traces much of the current difficulty to the largely unexamined assumption on the part of judges and scholars that the amendment created a right--the right to free exercise of religion--and that the courts are the guardians of that right. The First Amendment is, in fact, a limitation on government and a guarantee that the government will not impinge on the religious liberty that citizens already possess by natural right. Here, Curry shows that the key to finding more coherence between Church-State decisions and the historical meaning and purpose of the First Amendment lies in embracing this understanding of the Amendment as a limitation on government.

Author : Mark A. Driscoll
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414383622
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Call to Resurgence written by Mark A. Driscoll and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s tempting to believe that the Christian faith is alive and well in our country today. Our politicians talk about God. Our mega-churches are filled. Christian schools dot our landscape. Brace yourself. It’s an illusion. Believe it or not, only 8 percent of Americans profess and practice true evangelical Christian faith. There are more left-handed people than evangelical Christians in America. In this book, Mark Driscoll delivers a wake-up call for every believer: We are living in a post-Christian culture—a culture fundamentally at odds with faith in Jesus. This is good and bad news. The good news is that God is still working, redeeming people from this spiritual wasteland and inspiring a resurgence of faithful believers. The bad news is that many believers just don’t get it. They continue to gather exclusively into insular tribes, lobbing e-bombs at each other in cyberspace. Mark’s book is a clarion call for Christians. It’s time to get to work. We can only do this if we unite around Jesus and the essentials found in his Word, while at the same time, appreciating the distinctives within each Christian tribe. Mark shows us how to do just that. This isn’t the time to wait or debate. Join the resurgence.

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038553020X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forge of Christendom written by Tom Holland and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand narrative history of the re-emergence of Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire. At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. Weak, fractured, and hemmed in by hostile nations, they saw no future beyond the widely anticipated Second Coming of Christ. But when the world did not end, the peoples of Western Europe suddenly found themselves with no choice but to begin the heroic task of building a Jerusalem on earth. In The Forge of Christendom, Tom Holland masterfully describes this remarkable new age, a time of caliphs and Viking sea kings, the spread of castles and the invention of knighthood. It was one of the most significant departure points in history: the emergence of Western Europe as a distinctive and expansionist power.

Author : Brett Edward Whalen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054806
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dominion of God written by Brett Edward Whalen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brett Whalen explores the compelling belief that Christendom would spread to every corner of the earth before the end of time. During the High Middle Ages—an era of crusade, mission, and European expansion—the Western followers of Rome imagined the future conversion of Jews, Muslims, pagans, and Eastern Christians into one fold of God’s people, assembled under the authority of the Roman Church. Starting with the eleventh-century papal reform, Whalen shows how theological readings of history, prophecies, and apocalyptic scenarios enabled medieval churchmen to project the authority of Rome over the world. Looking to Byzantium, the Islamic world, and beyond, Western Christians claimed their special place in the divine plan for salvation, whether they were battling for Jerusalem or preaching to unbelievers. For those who knew how to read the signs, history pointed toward the triumph and spread of Roman Christianity. Yet this dream of Christendom raised troublesome questions about the problem of sin within the body of the faithful. By the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, radical apocalyptic thinkers numbered among the papacy’s most outspoken critics, who associated present-day ecclesiastical institutions with the evil of Antichrist—a subversive reading of the future. For such critics, the conversion of the world would happen only after the purgation of the Roman Church and a time of suffering for the true followers of God. This engaging and beautifully written book offers an important window onto Western religious views in the past that continue to haunt modern times.

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199911533
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Next Christendom written by Philip Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on this topic in recent years, he asks how the new Christianity is likely to affect the poor, among whom it finds its most devoted adherents. How should we interpret the enormous success of prosperity churches across the Global South? Politically, what will be the impact of new Christian movements? Will Christianity contribute to liberating the poor, to give voices to the previously silent, or does it threaten only to bring new kinds of division and conflict? Does Christianity liberate women, or introduce new scriptural bases for subjection? Acclaim for previous editions of The Next Christendom: Named one of the Top Religion Books of 2002 by USA Today Named One of the Top Ten Religion Books of the Year by Booklist (2002) Winner of the Christianity Today Book Award in the category of "Christianity and Culture" (2002) "Jenkins is to be commended for reminding us, throughout the often gripping pages of this lively work...that the history of Christianity is the history of innovative--and unpredictable--adaptations." --The New York Times Book Review "This is a landmark book. Jenkin's thesis is comprehensively researched; his analysis is full of insight; and his projection of the future may indeed prove to be prophetic." --Baptist Times "A valuable and provocative look at the phenomenon widely ignored in the affluent North but likely to be of enormous importance in the century ahead.... The Next Christendom is chillingly realistic about the relationship between Christianity and Islam." --Russell Shaw, Crisis "If the times demand nothing less than a major rethinking of contemporary global history from a Christian perspective, The Next Christendom will be one of the significant landmarks pointing the way." --Mark Noll, Books & Culture

Author : Joshua T. Searle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532617305
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology After Christendom written by Joshua T. Searle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity must be understood not as a religion of private salvation, but as a gospel movement of universal compassion, which transforms the world in the power of God’s truth. Amid several major global crises, including the rise of terrorism and religious fundamentalism and a sudden resurgence of political extremism, Christians must now face up fearlessly to the challenges of living in a “post-truth” age in which deceitful politicians present their media-spun fabrications as “alternative facts.” This book is an attempt to enact a transformative theology for these changing times that will equip the global Christian community to take a stand for the gospel in an age of cultural despair and moral fragmentation. The emerging post-Christendom era calls for a new vision of Christianity that has come of age and connects with the spiritual crisis of our times. In helping to make this vision a reality, Searle insists that theology is not merely an academic discipline, but a transformative enterprise that changes the world. Theology is to be experienced not just behind a desk, in an armchair, or in a church, but also in hospitals, in foodbanks, in workplaces, and on the streets. Theology is to be lived as well as read.

Author : Malcolm Muggeridge
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Christendom written by Malcolm Muggeridge and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the downfall of world-dependent Christendom and the continuance of the everlasting kingdom of Jesus Christ. -- Back cover.

Author : Mary Jean Richardson
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 9781449713805
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the Future written by Mary Jean Richardson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE END TIMES SERIES A set of two books designed to warn and prepare Christians for the dangerous days ahead. BOOK 1: Christianity and the Future The churches of Christianity have become divided. As dark forces push the world toward the End Times, only Christian unity can bring people to Christ. Christianity and the Future uses a new reference frame for mapping conflicting Christian postures to discover ways to unite Christians, churches, and denominations by resolving divisive topics. Christians can agree upon a common understanding of God’s will, as presented in the Holy Bible and revealed through the Holy Spirit.