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before modernity, theology and biblical scholarship were the same thing.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The patriarchy that continues to appear in biblical text is a “mere accommodation to the reality of the times and culture; it is not a reflection of the divine ideal for humanity.”35 Patriarchy is created by people, not ordained by God.
Beth Allison Barr • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
kerygma (story, preaching), leitourgia (worship and sacrament), diakonia (mission and service), koinonia (intimate community), and paideia (formation
Holly Catterton Allen, Christine Lawton • Intergenerational Christian Formation
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has seen its membership drop 58 percent during the same time period.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
The 1960s to Mid-1970s
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
“The empty cathedrals in Europe are silent witnesses to the barrenness of the church. Why continue to imitate a failed model?”
David Garrison • Church Planting Movements, How God Is Redeeming a Lost World
Ecclesiology: The Church as Communion and Mission (Catholic Basics: A Pastoral Ministry Series)
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and theology rest on the ‘religious a priori’ of mankind. ‘Christianity’ has always been a form - perhaps the true form - of ‘religion’. But if one day it becomes clear that this a priori does not exist at all, but was a historically conditioned and transient form of human self-expression, and if therefore man becomes radically religionless - and I
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