Christianity in the post secular West / edited by John Stenhouse and Brett Knowles. - xv, 290 pages ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Secularisation: master narrative or several stories? / Secularisation and the future of Christianity: lessons from the American experience / Continuities in Christian culture: a reply to Callum Brown / Post-secularism, or problematising the secular / What hath science wrought? Science and secularisation revisited / Human rights and religious traditions / Spirituality revolution and the process of reconfessionalisation in the West today / Civil religion: parallel development or replacement for traditional Christianity in the West / Pentecostalism and the future of Christianity in the West: reflections on a conversation / Will we find church in a future New Zealand? / Persistent Presbyterianism? Lay leadership and the future of the Reformed tradition / Church, kingdom and the moral concerns of modernity / Christian faith in the God of possibility / David Martin -- Robert Wuthnow -- Bernice Martin -- C. John Sommerville -- Ronald L. Numbers -- Nirmala Pillay -- William M. Johnston -- Richard V. Pierard -- Brett Knowles -- Kevin Ward -- John Roxborogh -- Robert Gascoigne -- Albert C. Moore.

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Christianity--21st century.
Secularism.
Secularization (Theology)
Civilization, Western.

BR481.C4944 2007 / 17417