Christianity in the twenty-first century : reflections on the challenges ahead

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

In the year 2000--and beyond--what will the church be like? What challenges will it face? Will the church be able to provide a strong sense of community? Will it be an ethical force in the lives of Americans? And what role will religion play in politics and in the marketplace?. In Christianity in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wuthnow, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Christianity > United States.
Twenty-first century > Forecasts.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christianity
Twenty-first century
Christendom.
United States
Forecasts
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Table of 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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