based instead on extremely limited and highly selective anecdotal evidence.Conservative Christians, for instance, routinely assume as the presupposition of their culture conversations that the Sixties were a time of rejection of Christianity and Christian "values," after which our culture has experienced ...
The collapse that interests us today is Western Christianity. We had the Gradually. A case can be made we’re now, or soon will be, in the Suddenly. If you are inclined to dismiss this claim out of hand and stop reading, then please meet “Luce”, the Vatican’s mascot for the Holy...
The Decline and Fall of Christianity in Medieval Asia J. J. Saunders Article first published online: 9 OCT 2007 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9809.1968.tb00496.x Issue Journal of Religious History Volume 5, Issue 2, pages 93–104, December 1968 Additional Information(Show All) How to CiteAuthor ...
What is leading Americans to shy away from not only Christianity but other religions as well?We look to FaithView, a Barna tool, for insight on this trend.
“Gayropa” narrative offers a compensatory boost to Russian identity, not only in terms of helping to rehabilitate Russianness but by offering a new version of the messianic idea. As a stronghold of Christianity and a bastion of traditional values, Russia will save Europe and the world. ...
The Antonine plague affected ancient Roman traditions, also leaving a mark on artistic expression; a renewal of spirituality and religiousness was recorded. These events created the conditions for the spread of monotheistic religions, such as Mithraism and Christianity. This period, characterized by ...
Although Christianity and the Roman upper class did not manage to save in the Ottoman Empire, however, teach it to a new form of the world's religions in the ancient place of, or assimilation of various social, ideological and religious beliefs to medieval society to a large extent to the...
Just as the eighteenth century became able to see Christianity not as a revelation from on high but as continuous with Socratic reflection, so the twentieth century became able to see natural science not as revealing the intrinsic nature of reality but as continuous with the sort of practical ...
than they are. The global Christian church is growing rapidly (as is Islam) and most demographers and social scientists do not see either religion in general or Christianity in particular fading away to a non-consequential force, even in the West. If that is the case, what should be done?
“There is an increase in illegal settlement activity in many neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, and this is not a secret, and it targets many places, including some Christian holy sites,” he said. Abu Nassar slammed the Israeli authorities for not putting “enough effort” to hold the extrem...