narrative of the soul on its journey, so central to Puritan introspection and the genesis of the intimate diary, becomes what Philip Rieff called The Triumph of the Therapeutic, above all in the United States.12 The Dubious Secularity ...
The Future of Christianity: An Inaugural Lecture Given on 4 June 2007
I am thinking of works like Riesman's The Lonely Crowd and Putnam's notion of Bowling Alone.1 We lament and we anticipate, we contrast authentic and fulfilled living with waste and frustration, and we intuit just when and how it was ...
... under the Nazis in Gunter Grass ' Peeling the Onion.16 After all , the young Gunter Grass thought Nazi Germany sufficiently ' ordinary ' to join the Waffen SS . Mary Fulbrook refers to the DDR as a “ participatory dictatorship ' or ...
Historical, Sociological, Political and Theological Perspectives from New Zealand John Stenhouse, Brett Knowles, Antony Wood ... Graeme Lee , Faith Politics and Servant Leadership ( Auckland : Challenge Publications , 2002 ) , 46–7 .
Fourth, Bellinzoni criticizes the persistence of obsolete myth in Christianity, demonstrating that, without its mythical embellishments, Christianity still offers a relevant understanding of the meaning of human existence.A work of ...
This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On Secularization.
This book is suitable for believers who love God. Here is an attempt to tell in brief the history of Christianity and what the future holds for it, as well.
Accessibly written, this book will be essential reading for students, academics and general readers interested in religion, Christianity, postmodern theology, and the key controversies in current Christian thinking.