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Presents an interpretation of why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social justice and spiritual experience.
A celebrated professor and theologian at Harvard Divinity School, Harvey Cox is a prolific writer who focuses on the intersection of religion and culture. The Future of Faith (2009) posits that Christianity is now entering its third Age. The Age of Faith, starting with Christ and his disciples, lasted for a couple centuries, and is characterized by explosive growth in decentralized groups energetically living to create God's Kingdom on Earth.
With Contantine's legitimization of Christianity, with its attendant clerical class, the Age of Belief emerged. Taking us up to recent times, this era has seen Christianity become bogged down in creeds and 'belief' which are stated checklists as to membership. Cox sees these as being used, not so much to differentiate Christians from those of other faith traditions, but to attack and persecute other Christians for not quite measuring up to whatever standard is in vogue.
I found most interesting our current transition to the Age of the Spirit with revitalized centers in Africa, South America, and Asia (outside of the traditional Western strongholds.) The focus is less on hierachy and doctrine and more on a vigorous localized spirituality living out Christ's calling. Cox sees movement away from concern over the afterlife and more to active participation in our world.
Those coming from a strongly creedal tradition might find some of his statements oversimplification. For those, this book offers the opportunity to honor creedal heritage and foundation, while enriching it with a renewed faith and spirituality. I like that Cox emphasized less tenets 'about' Jesus than faith 'in' him, with 'faith' being more related to awe, love and wonder. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
History may be servitude, History may be freedom. See, now, they vanish, The Faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, To become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern. ~ T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
This book is dedicated to my grandchildren: Maximilian Davis Marshall, b. December 8, 1993; Sara Cox Kelemen, b. January 21, 1994; Josephine Maria Marshall, b. June 23, 1996; Lucille Boushall Kelemen, b. December 2, 1997; Miles Bennett Marshall, b. July 9, 1999; Logan Cazier Cox, b. October 6, 2002; Ethan Cutler Cox, b. September 11, 2004; Miranda Jasmine Cox, b. May 11, 2007. They embody my faith in the future
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
What does the future hold for religion, and for Christianity in particular? At the beginning of the new millenium three qualities mark the world's spiritual profile, all tracing trajectories that will reach into the coming decades. The first is the unanticipated resurgence of religion in both public and private life around the globe. The second is that fundamentalism, the bane of the twentieth century, is dying. But the third and most important, though often unnoticed, is a profound change in the elemental nature of religiousness.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The wind of the Spirit is blowing. One indication is the upheaval that is shaking and renewing Christianity. Faith, rather than beliefs, is once again becoming its defining quality, and this reclaims what faith meant during its earliest years. I have described how that primal impetus was nearly suffocated by creeds, hierarchies, and the disastrous merger of the church with the empire. But I have also highlighted how a newly global Christianity, enlivened by a multiplicity of cultures and yearning for the realization of God's reign of shalom, is finding its soul again. All the signs suggest we are poised to enter a new Age of the Spirit and that the future will be a future of faith.
Presents an interpretation of why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social justice and spiritual experience.
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With Contantine's legitimization of Christianity, with its attendant clerical class, the Age of Belief emerged. Taking us up to recent times, this era has seen Christianity become bogged down in creeds and 'belief' which are stated checklists as to membership. Cox sees these as being used, not so much to differentiate Christians from those of other faith traditions, but to attack and persecute other Christians for not quite measuring up to whatever standard is in vogue.
I found most interesting our current transition to the Age of the Spirit with revitalized centers in Africa, South America, and Asia (outside of the traditional Western strongholds.) The focus is less on hierachy and doctrine and more on a vigorous localized spirituality living out Christ's calling. Cox sees movement away from concern over the afterlife and more to active participation in our world.
Those coming from a strongly creedal tradition might find some of his statements oversimplification. For those, this book offers the opportunity to honor creedal heritage and foundation, while enriching it with a renewed faith and spirituality. I like that Cox emphasized less tenets 'about' Jesus than faith 'in' him, with 'faith' being more related to awe, love and wonder. (