Entangling Web: The Fractious Story of Christianity in Europe - Couverture souple

 
9781666730029: Entangling Web: The Fractious Story of Christianity in Europe
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ISBN 10 : 1666730025 ISBN 13 : 9781666730029
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2024

Synopsis

Europe has a tremendously important role in the history of Christianity and was the continent with the most Christians from roughly the year 900 to 1980. However, Europe is now home to only 22 percent of all Christians in the world, down from 68 percent in 1900. The major trend of European religion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has been secularization—disestablishment and decreased influence of state churches, lower importance of religion in the public sphere, the decline of religious beliefs and practices, and individual religious switching from Christianity to atheism and agnosticism. One hundred years ago, it was true that the typical Christian in the world was a white European. Given current trends, however, Europe is clearly no longer the geographic nor demographic center of world Christianity. Yet, that does not mean Europe has no role in the future. It is still the home of major Christian communions, such as Catholics (Rome), Anglicans (Canterbury), Russian Orthodox (Moscow), and Lutherans (Geneva). European mission agencies are active throughout the world providing theological education and social welfare programs, combatting climate change, and advocating for gender equality.

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À propos des auteurs

Alec Ryrie is professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Durham. His most recent books are Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019) and (ed.) Christianity: A Historical Atlas (2020).




Mark A. Lamport has been a professor for nearly forty years at theological schools in the United States and Europe. He is coauthor of Nurturing Faith: A Practical Theology for Educating Christians (2021), coeditor of the seven-book series The Global Story of Christianity, and coeditor of Emerging Theologies from the Global South (2023). He works from Grand Rapids and Fort Myers.

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1666730025
ISBN 13 
9781666730029
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
346
Éditeur
Ryrie Alec, Lamport Mark A.
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1666721026 ISBN 13 :  9781666721027
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2024
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