Twenty-first-century shapes of the Church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4863791 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John A Williams Iii (0000-0002-8561-468X, York St John University, corresponding author), John Williams (0000-0003-3173-6048), John Allen Williams (0000-0001-5127-4608, York St John University) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 108-119 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-571X • E-ISSN: 2044-2696 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0040571x10391844 |
| OpenAlex | W2099143479 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Recent years have seen a burgeoning of literature addressing the future prospects of the churches. This article analyses this material into six broad approaches, representing a range of church responses to a socio-cultural diagnosis the author terms 'popular postmodernity'. The author argues that the churches' adoption of this diagnosis is sociologically unsophisticated in a similar way to their earlier handling of the 'secularization' thesis. He cites examples from the literature to propose that the churches need to engage more critically with questions of socio-cultural analysis, ecclesiology and the status of orthodoxy in developing their new strategies for mission and ministry
Christian ministry · CITES · Ecclesiology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Orthodoxy · Political science · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Secularization · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |