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Preaching by Heart
(Hardcover)
Ryan P Tinetti; Foreword by Richard Lischer
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Public theology is an increasingly important area of theological
discourse with strong global networks of institutions and academics
involved in it. Elaine Graham is one of the UK's leading
theologians and an established SCM author. In this book, Elaine
Graham argues that Western society is entering an unprecedented
political and cultural era, in which many of the assumptions of
classic sociological theory and of mainstream public theology are
being overturned. Whilst many of the features of the trajectory of
religious decline, typical of Western modernity, are still
apparent, there are compelling and vibrant signs of religious
revival, not least in public life and politics - local, national
and global. This requires a revision of the classic secularization
thesis, as well as much Western liberal political theory, which set
out separate or at least demarcated terms of engagement between
religion and the public domain. Elaine Graham examines claims that
Western societies are moving from 'secular' to 'post-secular'
conditions and traces the contours of the 'post-secular': the
revival of faith-based engagement in public sphere alongside the
continuing - perhaps intensifying - questioning of the legi-timacy
of religion in public life. She argues that public theology must
rethink its theological and strategic priorities in order to be
convincing in this new 'post-secular' world and makes the case for
the renewed prospects for public theology as a form of Christian
apologetics, drawing from Biblical, classical and contemporary
sources.
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