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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الصفحة 14
... traditional and normative , and it had prevailed in Western education for centuries . A contem- porary philosopher has voiced his general agreement with Arnold's view of culture in these words : ' The high culture of our civilisation ...
... traditional and normative , and it had prevailed in Western education for centuries . A contem- porary philosopher has voiced his general agreement with Arnold's view of culture in these words : ' The high culture of our civilisation ...
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... traditional settings , they discover that there is more than one way of doing things : at this point an awareness of cultural diversity makes everything seem more complex and can dramatically change the agenda of religious adherence and ...
... traditional settings , they discover that there is more than one way of doing things : at this point an awareness of cultural diversity makes everything seem more complex and can dramatically change the agenda of religious adherence and ...
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... traditional : in her judgement the idea that primitive people are by nature religious is untenable . Instead all kinds of ' scepticism , materialism and spiritual fervour are to be found in the range of tribal societies ' . Therefore ...
... traditional : in her judgement the idea that primitive people are by nature religious is untenable . Instead all kinds of ' scepticism , materialism and spiritual fervour are to be found in the range of tribal societies ' . Therefore ...
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... traditional culture , where both grid and group are strong . Such a culture involves a combination of clear authority , a hierarchy that commands group life , with a network of implicit norms that structure interaction between ...
... traditional culture , where both grid and group are strong . Such a culture involves a combination of clear authority , a hierarchy that commands group life , with a network of implicit norms that structure interaction between ...
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... traditional wisdom of the Churches . In other words , without some belonging to a ' group ' or some community links with the ' grid ' of other people , the typical cultural form of religiousness can easily become secularised ...
... traditional wisdom of the Churches . In other words , without some belonging to a ' group ' or some community links with the ' grid ' of other people , the typical cultural form of religiousness can easily become secularised ...
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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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