God After the Church Lost Control
Sociological Analysis and Critical-Constructive Theology
1st Edition
Published on 21. July 2022
167 pages
978-1-000-62357-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book combines insights from sociology of religion and theology to consider the fundamental changes that have taken place in how people think about God in contemporary Western society. It can be said that God has become irrelevant for many people, often as a result of well-grounded ethical critique of churches. Here the authors argue for the necessity of rethinking God-talk in a pluralist and changing context and for thinking critically about hegemonic ways of speaking about God from a moral and experiential perspective, not only from the point of view of abstract theology. Drawing on empirical material from a Norwegian setting, the book advocates a critical-constructive theology with a notion of God that takes human experience and social change seriously. It depicts a God who is an enabler of moral maturity rather than an authoritarian moral instructor, a God who is on the side of the marginalized and poor, and a challenge to unjust hierarchies.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-000-62357-4 (9781000623574)
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Jan-Olav Henriksen | Pal Repstad
God After the Church Lost Control
Sociological Analysis and Critical-Constructive Theology
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Jan-Olav Henriksen | Pal Repstad
God After the Church Lost Control
Sociological Analysis and Critical-Constructive Theology
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07/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Jan-Olav Henriksen is Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion at the Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society (MF) in Oslo, Norway.
Pal Repstad is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway.
Pal Repstad is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway.
Content
Introduction: Why this Book?
1 On God and change
2 Religious trends in Northern Europe - an overview
3 Does society shape God?
4 The changing Christian God
5 The crisis of theology - and why it matters for speaking about God
6 The morally intolerable God - and the alternative
7 The politically dangerous God - a God of love
8 God as she? Why can't she be?
9 Pluralism challenges notions of God and religious truth
10 When God becomes irrelevant to society's challenges
11 God as vulnerable love?
Bibliography
1 On God and change
2 Religious trends in Northern Europe - an overview
3 Does society shape God?
4 The changing Christian God
5 The crisis of theology - and why it matters for speaking about God
6 The morally intolerable God - and the alternative
7 The politically dangerous God - a God of love
8 God as she? Why can't she be?
9 Pluralism challenges notions of God and religious truth
10 When God becomes irrelevant to society's challenges
11 God as vulnerable love?
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