Sublime

The sociologists state candidly their basic conclusion: the congregations that reared these young people offered them no compelling reasons or training about how and why “Christianity is special” (Hoge, 13-18).

One of the things for which Schweitzer has become most famous is now increasingly questioned: ‘apocalyptic’ was for him, and for the ninety years since he wrote, almost synonymous with the end of the space-time universe, but it is now clear that this is a bizarre literalistic reading of what the first century knew to be thoroughly metaphorical.

Phase 2 found that no theological tradition, age group, ethnicity, political affiliation, education level, geographic location, or income bracket escaped the dechurching in America.

Inference to the best explanation

James K. A. Smith is fast becoming a major voice in the world of postmodern theology. One of his major strengths is his ability to show that theology matters inside and outside the world of scholarship.

Notably, there is no record that any Lutheran minister, representing the city’s largest Protestant denomination—or any other Protestant minister—tried to stop the lynchings.

Wie ist es möglich, dass ein Hörer schon nach wenigen Takten eine Sinfonie von Gustav Mahler erkennt, selbst wenn er das Stück nie zuvor gehört hat?