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The Eclipse of Christianity: and why it matters [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 368 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 236x158x32 mm, weight: 581 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Sep-2024
  • Leidėjas: John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1399802747
  • ISBN-13: 9781399802741
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The Eclipse of Christianity: and why it mattersDidesnis paveikslėlis
  • Formatas: Hardback, 368 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 236x158x32 mm, weight: 581 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Sep-2024
  • Leidėjas: John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1399802747
  • ISBN-13: 9781399802741
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While talk of Christianity's decline needs qualifying (the Christian faith continues to expand at a global level) it is incontestable that the faith falters in its Middle Eastern and European heartlands, meaning not just the retreat of religion from the public square - external hostility, and a weak response from ecclesiastical ranks, are mutually reinforcing - but also the thinning out of religion itself.
 
Public spaces have been largely evacuated of Christian presence as the state's ability to meet people's material needs has increased. Different dynamics are at work in various European countries - notably France, Germany and Spain - but the family resemblances are substantial. The Church has been left asking what it still has to talk about as the credibility of its own metaphysical claims has been diluted.

Many people grant the positive role played by Europe's Christian heritage in raising us to the branches on which we now perch, but still think that the ladder can be kicked away. People with very little cultural memory of Christianity begin to ask Why should we care? And Is belief in God credible in the first place? Yet the secularist still cuts corners in inferring that the Church has done its job and can now fade away.

Based on solid reportage and canvassing a broad range of views - giving due weight both to genuinely positive aspects of progressive politics and ways in which unaccountable ecclesiastical power needs to be challenged - Shortt nevertheless argues that the Churches are seriously underselling themselves. Representing the largest source of social capital on earth, they have a much stronger message than they themselves often recognize. Of course, Britain and other European countries are multicultural. Theocracy and other forms of authoritarianism should be shunned. But Christian values represent humanity's best hope. Clerics and other representatives should be saying so far more robustly.

Recenzijos

A brilliant book, comprehensive in scope... Shortt presents a compelling case for a Christian vision of what it means to live well. An extraordinary tour de force, and one of Shortt's best pieces of writing. Utterly compelling. -- Peter Sedgwick, academic and ethicist A persuasive and elegantly written analysis of one of the most important cultural shifts of recent times. * Graham Tomlin, Director, Centre for Cultural Witness * Compulsory reading for all who claim Christianity is dead... To lose Christianity is to lose grounds for believing in human dignity, human rights and human equality: this is a strong case for a return to our sources. * Angela Tilby, author and theologian * A brave and splendidly ambitious case both for Christians and secularists to take Christianity seriously, in a Western world more desperate than it acknowledges for soundly based principles and hopes. * Lucy Beckett, author of In the Light of Christ: Writings in the Western Tradition * Shortt's careful research and analysis of the religious and spiritual yearnings of a secular age, and the way churches are responding provide rich food for thought. His central question of how we might recover sight of the transcendent in a time that feels adrift is of fundamental importance. * Mark Vernon, psychotherapist and author * A brilliant survey of Christianity's decline in Britain - how it's happened, and why it matters - by one of our most learned and stimulating apologists. * Tom Holland, author of Dominion * Lucid, brilliant, accessible. A must read! * Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Infidel * Rupert Shortt is always clear, cogent, compassionate, flawlessly reasonable and perfectly informed. Whether you feel tempted to dismiss Christianity or called to defend it, you must read this book. * Felipe Fernįndez-Armesto, academic and author * Wide-ranging, readable, and forthright, Shortt offers an acute analysis of the problems and prospects facing Christian faith today. * David Fergusson, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge * Shortt has an admirable gift for making the obscure lucid. * David Bentley Hart * Shortt is world class * John Cornwell * One of the UK's most thoughtful and self-effacing religious commentators * Professor Michael Barnes SJ * Shortt is in a line stretching back to C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton. * Bishop John Saxbee *

Rupert Shortt is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. He was an editor on The Times Literary Supplement from 2000 until 2020, and has written for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard among other publications. His books include Outgrowing Dawkins: God for Grown-Ups (2019), Does Religion Do More Harm Than Good? (2019), God Is No Thing: Coherent Christianity (2016), Rowan's Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop (2014), Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack (2012), and Benedict XVI: Commander of the Faith (2005).