The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity

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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 ...
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Overview

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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781579109844
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • Publication date: 6/1/2002
  • Pages: 80
  • Sales rank: 716,987
  • Product dimensions: 4.90 (w) x 7.52 (h) x 0.19 (d)

Meet the Author

Douglas John Hall is a retired Professor of Christian Theology from the faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University , Montreal. He is the author of seventeen books, including a three-volume theology 'Thinking the Faith, Professing the Faith, and Confessing the Faith'.

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Table of Contents

Preface to the Series
Foreword
1 The Decline and Fall of Christendom 1
Great Expectations - and Ecclesiastical "Future Shock" 1
How We Have Viewed Ourselves 9
2 Ecclesiastical Responses to the End of the Constantinian Era 19
The Dilemma of the Liberal and Moderate Churches at the End of Christendom 20
The Tenacity of Cultural Establishment 28
3 Intentional Disestablishment: A Work of Theology 35
The Reality of Our Disestablishment 36
Disestablishing Ourselves! 41
Disengagement as a Work of Theology 43
4 On Being Salt, Yeast, and Light: The Christian Movement in a Post-Christian Era 51
An Ancient Dialectic: "Not Of" yet "In" 52
Four Worldly Quests - and Christian Witness 57
Conclusion 65
Notes 67
References Cited 68
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