Why conservative churches are growing

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The liberal churches are tolerant, rational, democratic, cooperative, and dogmatically flexible. And they are dying. The conservative churches are zealous, puritanical, authoritarian, xenophobic, and monolithic - and they are thriving. Why? Because people join churches in order to find guidance, to satisfy the need for group identification, to feel that they are changing their lives. If a church is able to provide those elements, it survives and grows, but if it is indistinguishable from any other church - and, indeed, indistinguishable from society at large - then there is nothing in it to attract members or to retain those that it has. This, as Kelley recognizes, is not a welcome explanation of the decline of the liberal churches; but it is an inescapable one and one that is pragmatically verifiable. The churches, the author concludes, have a hard choice: be strict, or be extinct. He does not go into the deeper question of whether survival for the sake of survival is a true religious value; but he says enough to awaken second thoughts among the liberal clergy who are determined, in any case, to survive. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 juni 2000

Aantal pagina's: 210

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Dean M. Kelley

Hoofduitgeverij: Mercer University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 151 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 14 mm

Verpakking lengte: 230 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 167 g

EAN: 9780865542242

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