Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
5 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Three Broad Perspectives |
1) "Left-wing, liberal, or modernist"
2) "Right-wing, conservative, traditionalist"
3) Centrist, moderate, accommodationist" |
|
|
"Left-wing, liberal, or modernist"
Those who think that emphasis should be placed on adapting traditional christian teaching and practice to the new insights, methods, and situations emerging in our rapidly changing and increasingly secular world.
|
-American Civil Rights movement
-Gender and sexual-orientation equality
-justice for oppressed peoples
-environmentally responsibility
-Black theology (liberation theology) |
|
|
"Right-wing, conservative, traditionalist"
Those who argue that traditional teachings (whether derived from the Bible, the church, or an inspired leader) should be even more strongly affirmed in the face of the challenges posed by the modern, secular world. |
-Message of personal salvation
-believe in a literal interpretation of scripture
-some conservatives emphasize the imminent return of Christ to transform this sinful world
- In recent decades, many conservatives have become politically active. |
|
|
"Centrist, moderate, accommodationist view"
Those who seek a middle ground, affirming the core of traditional teachings but also some aspect of the modern perspectives and approaches. |
- See merit in both the liberal concern for Christian involvement in righting social wrongs and the conservative emphasis on personal salvation and traditional moral values.
-They reject more radical stances that so often seem to gain attention. For example, moderate Christians might support a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, as do liberals, but agree with traditionalists that abortion has inappropriately become a method of birth control that devalues life. |
|
|
(The Next Christendom, 2002) Philip Jenkins |
- Christianity is shifting from the northern hemisphere, with its more liberal orientation, to the more traditionalist southern hemisphere.
-By 2025, 50% of the Christian population will be in Africa and Latin America, and another 17% will be in Asia.
-As the center shifts, the trend will be in the traditionalist direction. "Christianity is actually moving toward supernaturalism and neoorthodoxy," Jenkins contends, "and in many ways toward the ancient world view expressed in the New Testament: a vision of Jesus as the embodiment of divine power, who overcomes the evil forces that incflict calamity and sickness upon the human race."
-American sociologist Robert Wuthnow has challenged Jenkins's theory... arguing that the involvement of American and that Christian churches and parachurch groups in the world has never been larger or more far-reaching than it is today.
-There has clearly been a marked decline in participation in tradtional Christian denominations in the United States and Europe.
- One exception to these patterns od decline is the growth of Christian "megachurches".
-Another exception, a Christian movement called the Emerging Church, is gaining momentum... There is no one theology but known for a commitment to addressing the structural causes of poverty, hunger, and war. Followers claim to be motivated by the Biblical mandate to "do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with God" and to live out the words of the Lord's prayer: "Thy Kingdom come on Earth, as it is in heaven." |
