| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 174 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Theology after September 11 -- Religion and the environment (The Charles Gore lecture at Westminster Abbey, November 1998) -- The arms trade -- Media ethics and the Lambeth Conference -- Sexual ethics -- Churchgoing decline: a case-study -- Responses to churchgoing decline -- Beyond decline: three case-studies -- Beyond confessional theology -- Changes in applied theology -- Sociology and theology |
| Summary |
Churches everywhere are experiencing change. In his thought-provoking book, Professor Robin Gill identifies the main challenges facing the church and reflects on how Christians should respond. He first studies the immense moral challenges of our rapidly changing world: religion and the environment, the arms trade (including reflection on the global situation since the attack on New York on 11 September 2001), media ethics and the Lambeth Conference, and sexual ethics. The second part focuses on the changing patterns of churchgoing and addresses anxieties about churchgoing decline in the West, wh |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church.
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Christianity -- Forecasting.
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Church renewal.
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Church and the world.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ecclesiology.
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Christianity -- Forecasting
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Church
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Church and the world
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Church renewal
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Christendom.
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Kerk en maatschappij.
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Ontkerkelijking.
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Ethiek.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780567369390 |
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0567369390 |
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