Public Christians in A Secular Age Leadership for Season Change Book

Public Christians in A Secular Age Leadership for Season Change

  • Author : Neil R. Johnson
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 13,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2022-05-16
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 282
  • ISBN 10 : 0645264601
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This book explores new depths in the foundations for leadership and for aspiring leaders in business, ministry and media. It explores how leaders manage the necessary call to action in emerging from the shallow dimension of a Secular Age.

Wisdom from Babylon Book

Wisdom from Babylon

  • Author : Gordon T. Smith
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • File Size : 16,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-10-13
  • Genre: Religion
  • Pages : 200
  • ISBN 10 : 9780830853274
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What does it mean to provide leadership for the church in an increasingly secular context? Analyzing the phenomenon of secularization in the West and charting common Christian responses, this indispensable resource from Gordon Smith discusses the competencies and capacities essential for cultivating distinctively Christian leadership today.

Our Secular Age Book

Our Secular Age

  • Author : Collin Hansen
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 13,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-09-08
  • Genre: Religion and culture
  • Pages : 176
  • ISBN 10 : 0692919996
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Probably no book published in the last decade has been so ambitious as Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. He seeks nothing less than to account for the spread of secularism and decline of faith in the last 500 years. Now a remarkable roster of writers-including Carl Trueman, Michael Horton, and Jen Pollock Michel-considers Taylor's insights for the church's life and mission, covering everything from healthcare to liturgy to pop culture and politics. Nothing is easy about faith today. But endurance produces character, and character produces hope, even in our secular age.

Identity in a Secular Age Book

Identity in a Secular Age

  • Author : Fern Elsdon-Baker
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • File Size : 16,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-09-15
  • Genre: Science
  • Pages : 276
  • ISBN 10 : 9780822987697
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Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. But why? And how do we really know what people actually think about evolutionary science, let alone the many and varied ways in which it might relate to individual belief? In this multidisciplinary volume, experts in history and philosophy of science, oral history, sociology of religion, social psychology, and science communication and public engagement look beyond two warring systems of thought. They consider a far more complex, multifaceted, and distinctly more interesting picture of how differing groups along a spectrum of worldviews—including atheistic, agnostic, and faith groups—relate to and form the ongoing narrative of a necessary clash between evolution and faith. By ascribing agency to the public, from the nineteenth century to the present and across Canada and the United Kingdom, this volume offers a much more nuanced analysis of people’s perceptions about the relationship between evolutionary science, religion, and personal belief, one that better elucidates the complexities not only of that relationship but of actual lived experience.

Identifying as Christian in an Alien Public Arena Book

Identifying as Christian in an Alien Public Arena

  • Author : Maureen Miner
  • Publisher : IAP
  • File Size : 12,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2021-01-01
  • Genre: Religion
  • Pages : 223
  • ISBN 10 : 9781648022906
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Although Christianity is the world’s largest religion, there is confusion over what it means to be Christian within contemporary society. For individuals it is difficult to find, form, or receive a Christian identity, let alone maintain one within a secular world. Within organizations such as the church and professions there is often a disconnection between public and private identities and the reality of being Christian in our culture. For society there is the problem of disparate portrayals of Christianity, the marginalized status of Christianity with an associated lack of influence of Christians on our society, and the ongoing shaping of Christian identity by the public arena itself. Associated questions are: should Christians try to engage in, and even shape, the public arena and if so, how? This volume examines the problem of confused and misunderstood Christian identity in a post-Christian age. It suggests ways of shaping Christian identity for the benefit of individuals and for the common good. The importance of well-formed Christian identities is illustrated by research and analysis of selected professions so that the public life of Christians can be more fulfilling and effective. This book will be valuable for all those who are interested in religious identity within a secular society. People of faith and religious organizations will benefit from a penetrating analysis of what it means to be Christian today. Similarly, those whose work involves the church, counseling, education and the performing arts will find specific applications that address concerns about faith in the workplace.

Religious Freedom in a Secular Age Book

Religious Freedom in a Secular Age

  • Author : Michael F. Bird
  • Publisher : Zondervan
  • File Size : 19,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2022-05-03
  • Genre: Religion
  • Pages : 224
  • ISBN 10 : 9780310538899
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Religious freedom is up for debate and needs to be defended--discover how. In Religious Freedom in a Secular Age author Michael Bird argues that religious freedom should not be preserved by churches entrusting themselves to the protection of a conservative leader draped in the apparel of civil religion, nor should they consent to allowing religious freedom to be steam rolled by progressive activists with their increasing hostility towards people of faith. What is needed instead is a better appreciation for how secularism can work to create space for people of all faiths and none, to resolve tense relationships between church and state, and to come to a fair and equitable settlement when religious liberty and LGBTQI+ rights come into conflict. Bird tackles complicated debates about the nature, extent, and limitations of religious freedom with a view to encouraging Christians to stand up for their faith in a post-Christian world in a way that is humble and gentle yet also courageous. Advance Praise: "This book's global perspective will challenge readers of all backgrounds and beliefs toward better arguments and better understanding." - John D. Inazu, Washington University in St. Louis "Bird demonstrates that religious liberty is of interest not only to Christians but also to the marketplace of ideas that helped deepen faith while simultaneously making room for peaceable difference." - Andrew T. Walker, professor and author of Liberty for All

Religious Difference in a Secular Age Book

Religious Difference in a Secular Age

  • Author : Saba Mahmood
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • File Size : 19,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2015-11-03
  • Genre: Social Science
  • Pages : 254
  • ISBN 10 : 9780691153285
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How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minorities The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais—religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country—Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them. Tracing the historical career of secular legal concepts in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, she explores how contradictions at the very heart of political secularism have aggravated and amplified existing forms of Islamic hierarchy, bringing minority relations in Egypt to a new historical impasse. Through a close examination of Egyptian court cases and constitutional debates about minority rights, conflicts around family law, and controversies over freedom of expression, Mahmood invites us to reflect on the entwined histories of secularism in the Middle East and Europe. A provocative work of scholarship, Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges us to rethink the promise and limits of the secular ideal of religious equality.

A SECULAR AGE Book
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A SECULAR AGE

  • Author : Charles TAYLOR
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • File Size : 10,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2009-06-30
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Pages : 888
  • ISBN 10 : 9780674044289
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The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Calvinism for a Secular Age Book

Calvinism for a Secular Age

  • Author : Jessica R. Joustra
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • File Size : 18,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2022-02-08
  • Genre: Religion
  • Pages : 250
  • ISBN 10 : 9781514001479
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Pastor, politician, and Dutch Neo-Calvinist theologian Abraham Kuyper's lectures on the role of Christian faith in politics, science, and art have become a touchstone of contemporary Reformed theology. Revisiting these lectures, Jessica and Robert Joustra bring together theologians, historians, scientists, and others to consider Kuyper's ongoing importance and complex legacy for today.

Truth and the Church in a Secular Age Book

Truth and the Church in a Secular Age

  • Author : David Jasper
  • Publisher : SCM Press
  • File Size : 17,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2019-07-31
  • Genre: Religion
  • Pages : 185
  • ISBN 10 : 9780334058168
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Together, the collection of essays in this volume seek to explore the place of Christianity, the Church and their claims to uphold the truth in an age of ‘post-truth’. Beginning with a consideration of truth within the biblical tradition, the chapters come from historical, theological and philosophical starting points in their concerns, setting out the groundwork for discussions of Christian truth and science, prayer, ethics and the liturgy. Chapters: *Truth and the Biblical Tradition (Nicholas Taylor) *The Origins of Truth in Philosophy and Theory (David Jasper) *Truth and Christian Theology (Jenny Wright) *Truth and the Anglican Tradition (Trevor Hart) *Truth after Wittgenstein: From Skepticism to Postmodernism (Scott Robertson) *“Scientifically Proved:” How Science Relates to the Truth (Mike Fuller) *Truth and Experience: Prayer and the Practice of Ethics (John McKluckie) *Liturgy as a Repository of Truth (John Davies) *Today’s Church and the Politics of Post-Truth. (Alison Peden) *Truth and the Idea of the Holy (Steven Ballard)

Religious Difference in a Secular Age Book

Religious Difference in a Secular Age

  • Author : Saba Mahmood
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • File Size : 5,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2015-11-03
  • Genre: Social Science
  • Pages : 248
  • ISBN 10 : 9781400873531
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The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais—religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country—Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them. Tracing the historical career of secular legal concepts in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, she explores how contradictions at the very heart of political secularism have aggravated and amplified existing forms of Islamic hierarchy, bringing minority relations in Egypt to a new historical impasse. Through a close examination of Egyptian court cases and constitutional debates about minority rights, conflicts around family law, and controversies over freedom of expression, Mahmood invites us to reflect on the entwined histories of secularism in the Middle East and Europe. A provocative work of scholarship, Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges us to rethink the promise and limits of the secular ideal of religious equality.

A Public Faith Book
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A Public Faith

  • Author : Miroslav Volf
  • Publisher : Brazos Press
  • File Size : 17,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011-08
  • Genre: Religion
  • Pages : 192
  • ISBN 10 : 9781587432989
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An intellectual and applied Christian engagement with what it really means to flourish as human beings in relationship to God and one another.

Christians in a Secular World Book

Christians in a Secular World

  • Author : Kurt Bowen
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • File Size : 17,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2005-05
  • Genre: Christians
  • Pages : 354
  • ISBN 10 : 0773527125
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A detailed assessment of the degree to which religious commitment, or lack thereof, affects the psychological state of Canadians and the social fabric of Canada

Between a Rock and a Hard Place Book

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

  • Author : Elaine Graham
  • Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
  • File Size : 16,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2013-07-31
  • Genre: Religion
  • Pages : 295
  • ISBN 10 : 9780334045984
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Public theology is an increasingly important area of theological discourse with strong global networks of institutions and academics involved in it. Elaine Graham is one of the UK's leading theologians and an established SCM author. In this book, Elaine Graham argues that Western society is entering an unprecedented political and cultural era, in which many of the assumptions of classic sociological theory and of mainstream public theology are being overturned. Whilst many of the features of the trajectory of religious decline, typical of Western modernity, are still apparent, there are compelling and vibrant signs of religious revival, not least in public life and politics - local, national and global. This requires a revision of the classic secularization thesis, as well as much Western liberal political theory, which set out separate or at least demarcated terms of engagement between religion and the public domain. Elaine Graham examines claims that Western societies are moving from 'secular' to 'post-secular' conditions and traces the contours of the 'post-secular': the revival of faith-based engagement in public sphere alongside the continuing - perhaps intensifying - questioning of the legi¬timacy of religion in public life. She argues that public theology must rethink its theological and strategic priorities in order to be convincing in this new 'post-secular' world and makes the case for the renewed prospects for public theology as a form of Christian apologetics, drawing from Biblical, classical and contemporary sources.

Pastor in a Secular Age Book

Pastor in a Secular Age

  • Author : Andrew Root
  • Publisher : Baker Academic
  • File Size : 17,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2019-06-18
  • Genre: Christianity
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 10 : 1540962083
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Through an abundance of examples, this book explores how pastors have both perpetuated and responded to our secular age, and provides a new vision for pastoral ministry today.