Faith And Politics After Christendom
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By definition, one of the most integral issues raised by the idea of post-Christendom is the relationship between church and state. For the best part of 1700 years, the institutional church has enjoyed a hand-in-hand relationship with government. Indeed, the church has often been seen as the glue that has stopped political systems from disintegrating into anarchy. But in this post-Christendom era the relation of Church and State has weakened to the point where the church can no longer claim to play any significant part in Government.
As part of the post-Christendom series this book will offer perspectives and resources for Christians and churches no longer at the centre of society but on the margins. It invites a realistic and hopeful response to challenges and opportunities awaiting the church in twenty-fi rst century politics. In particular, the book suggests that where it has previously defended the social order, the church now has a brand new opportunity to exercise its prophetic role, challenging injustice, shaking institutions and undermining some of the central values and norms on which society is built.
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Author Jonathan Bartley
ISBN/Ref
9781842273487
Publisher
Paternoster Press
Published 2006-06-09
Product ID
96610
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Faith And Politics After Christendom
How do Christians engage in religiously plural and sometimes aggressively secular society, now that the Church's authority is no longer universally accepted, or even respected and where its interventions in matters of morality, ethics, social work and education are often viewed with criticism, scorn and suspicion? With his background as a former political adviser at Westminster and now director of the Ekklesia thinktank, Jonathan Bartley, one of the smartest young evangelicals around, offers compelling insights and suggestions, based on deep thought and clear-headed research.
Faith And Politics After Christendom
At a time when the whole relationship between faith, government and public policy is undergoing a historic change in every part of the world, Jonathan Bartley has made a highly intelligent contribution to a debate which citizens of all creeds, and of none, ought to be following.
Faith And Politics After Christendom
The main churches in Britain continue to cling on to the wreckage of Christendom, and postmodern theology is increasingly neoconservative. This book is a clear and rigorous plea for Christians to face their situation more honestly, to seek a vision that is free of nostalgia.
Faith and politics after Christendom
'Faith and politics after Christendom’ offers the reader a view of contemporary religion and politics that is both questioning and challenging. In a ‘post Christian age’, Jonathan Bartley questions the role of institutions both political and ecclesial. He bids us consider what it is to live in a multi cultural , even secular society, where Christianity is stripped of its traditional protections of both establishment and its attendant political authority. This is not so much a book of answers but of pertinent questions. It deserves a wide reading.
It's an okay book
I found it quite interesting. It is very well structured.
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