Clashing Symbols: An Introduction to Faith and CulturePaulist Press, 2003 - 208 من الصفحات Faith and Culture has become a field of crucial importance in recent years. Clashing Symbols breaks new ground in presenting a wide area of reflection on the relationship between faith and the powerful cultural contexts surrounding believers today. Michael Paul Gallagher introduces readers to the main insights, theories, and controversies being discussed by individuals and church bodies. Early chapters discuss the many meanings of culture, then specifically religious responses to culture, focusing on Vatican II and resolutions from the World Council of Churches. Themes concerning modernity and postmodernity are explored in detail, especially from a religious point of view. The final four chapters deal with more pastoral themes: the challenges of inculturation, discernment, youth ministry and the outlines of a spirituality for today's culture. Drawing on the work of some of the leading thinkers in the field, this clearly written work is a natural for specialists and academics. It will also be valuable for anyone who wishes to understand the increasing relevance of culture for theology and for religious commitment today. In addition, it will also help "ordinary" Christians to understand the realities and challenges of contemporary culture with wisdom, with confidence, and in the light of faith. + |
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... reality - the survival of deep cultural differences between peoples . Culture now means ' cul- tures ' , to echo the Mexican writer Octavio Paz , and they have surprising survival strengths . Many other related questions arise in our ...
... reality - the survival of deep cultural differences between peoples . Culture now means ' cul- tures ' , to echo the Mexican writer Octavio Paz , and they have surprising survival strengths . Many other related questions arise in our ...
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... reality . Experts such as Derrick de Kerckhove ( director of the McLuhan Project in Canada ) are telling us that the electronic information revolution puts us excit- ingly in a new moment of evolution and yet he acknowledges its ...
... reality . Experts such as Derrick de Kerckhove ( director of the McLuhan Project in Canada ) are telling us that the electronic information revolution puts us excit- ingly in a new moment of evolution and yet he acknowledges its ...
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... realities of modern societies it is necessary to see culture as a product of definite forces at work in history and to inquire how it is embedded in a whole range of activities . Hence Williams prefers to define culture as ' the ...
... realities of modern societies it is necessary to see culture as a product of definite forces at work in history and to inquire how it is embedded in a whole range of activities . Hence Williams prefers to define culture as ' the ...
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... - vidual choices and imposes various roles on its members . This kind of group often presents itself to itself as egalitarian but in reality this entails an absence of scope for individual initiative Four Theorists of Change 33.
... - vidual choices and imposes various roles on its members . This kind of group often presents itself to itself as egalitarian but in reality this entails an absence of scope for individual initiative Four Theorists of Change 33.
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A Major Theme of Vatican II | 41 |
Catholic Developments since 1965 | 49 |
The World Council of Churches A Different Approach | 63 |
Incoming Tides of Modernity | 75 |
Religious Responses to Modernity | 86 |
The Postmodern Situation Friend or Foe? | 98 |
Cultural Discernment | 129 |
Cultural Consciousness in Faith Ministry | 145 |
Towards a Spirituality of Culture | 157 |
Roots and Horizons | 169 |
Anthology of Quotations | 173 |
Notes | 177 |
Select Bibliography | 191 |
Debates about Inculturation | 115 |
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