Saving Faith: How American Christianity Can Reclaim Its Prophetic Voice Balmer Randall
Saving Faith: How American Christianity Can Reclaim Its Prophetic Voice Balmer Randall Survey data and anecdotal evidence agree that Christianity is losing its hold on American life. Moral authority,…
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Saving Faith: How American Christianity Can Reclaim Its Prophetic Voice Balmer Randall
Survey data and anecdotal evidence agree that Christianity is losing its hold on American life. Moral authority, it seems, is hard to come by, with all three of the major Christian traditions--Roman Catholicism, mainline Protestantism, and white evangelicalism--facing a crisis of credibility.Finger-pointing abounds. The Roman Catholic hierarchy struggles to regain its credibility following the pedophilia scandals, mainline Protestantism wrestles with issues of sexual identity and attrition, and white evangelicalism has merged with the far-right precincts of the Republican Party.
Some of the proposed remedies--an appeal to nostalgia, an attempt to undermine the separation of church Many people of faith blame the rampant secularization of society in recent decades, while critics contend that Christians themselves, or at least their leaders, are blind to their own shortcomings.