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Autore |
Gill Robin |
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Titolo |
Changing worlds : can the Church respond? / / Robin Gill |
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London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-19720-0 |
9786613197207 |
0-567-36939-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 174 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christianity - Forecasting |
Church renewal |
Church and the world |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; Introduction: Theology After September 11; Part 1 Changing moral perceptions; 1 Religion and the Environment; 2 The Arms Trade; 3 Media Ethics and the Lambeth Conference; 4 Sexual Ethics; Part 2 Changing patterns of churchgoing; 5 Churchgoing Decline - A Case-study; 6 Responses to Churchgoing Decline; 7 Beyond Decline - Three Case-studies; Part 3 Changing approaches to theology; 8 Beyond Confessional Theology; 9 Changes in Applied Theology; 10 Sociology and Theology; Conclusion; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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