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. + |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 26
الصفحة 6
... studies ' : largely under the influence of postmodernism ( a subject in a later chapter here ) these authors seek often to unmask the falsities of our assumptions in such areas as politics , gender , race relations 6 Clashing Symbols.
... studies ' : largely under the influence of postmodernism ( a subject in a later chapter here ) these authors seek often to unmask the falsities of our assumptions in such areas as politics , gender , race relations 6 Clashing Symbols.
الصفحة 16
... seek to list the key elements that make up the ' complex whole ' that is culture . Indeed that phrase , as already seen , was first used by Edward Tyior in 1871 and was repeated in their respective defi- nitions of culture by Ruth ...
... seek to list the key elements that make up the ' complex whole ' that is culture . Indeed that phrase , as already seen , was first used by Edward Tyior in 1871 and was repeated in their respective defi- nitions of culture by Ruth ...
الصفحة 18
... seeks to study the sign systems underlying human behaviour . He compares culture to ' webs of significance ' that humanity has spun , and any analysis of culture will try to understand the complex meaning embodied in those social and ...
... seeks to study the sign systems underlying human behaviour . He compares culture to ' webs of significance ' that humanity has spun , and any analysis of culture will try to understand the complex meaning embodied in those social and ...
الصفحة 22
... seek ways and means for making it into a vehicle for communicating the Christian message ' . 26 Before the word came into vogue Lonergan was already touching on some key elements in ' inculturation ' . The view of culture proposed by ...
... seek ways and means for making it into a vehicle for communicating the Christian message ' . 26 Before the word came into vogue Lonergan was already touching on some key elements in ' inculturation ' . The view of culture proposed by ...
الصفحة 23
... seeks to question the whole set of ' practices ' implicit in any culture , asking in particular about ' the means of cultural production'35 - the influences behind the particular features of a dominant culture . It is worth adding that ...
... seeks to question the whole set of ' practices ' implicit in any culture , asking in particular about ' the means of cultural production'35 - the influences behind the particular features of a dominant culture . It is worth adding that ...
المحتوى
13 | |
27 | |
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 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
approach assumptions ation authentic become Bernard Lonergan called Catholic challenge chapter Charles Taylor Christ Christian culture Christian faith Church Clashing Symbols complex contemporary culture context convergence Council creative critique dehumanising developments dialogue dimension diversity dominant culture Douglas Douglas Coupland embodied ernity evangelisation evangelization expression faith and culture field forms freedom Gaudium et Spes globalisation gospel gospel and culture grid hence hope horizons human ibid identity imagination impact incarnation inculturation individual influence intellectual interpretation involves Jacques Godbout John Paul judgement Kavanaugh Konrad Raiser language Lesslie Newbigin liberating lived culture London Mary Douglas modern culture negative offers pastoral person pluralism Pope postmodernity question Raymond Williams reality recent recognise relationships religion René Girard response roots Rowan Williams Second Vatican Council secular secularisation sense sensibility situation social society spiritual stress theology thinking today's culture traditional transcendence Vatican Vatican II vision whole words youth ministry