Religion in the Secular City Toward a Postmodern Theology
- New York Simon and Schuster 1984
- 304p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Praying for the Children at the Gate :The conservative critique of Modern Theology To bring the Nation back ....The Revival of Redneck religion ..........29 Fundamentalism and the Tradition of Religious Antimodernism.........38 True reason, True science, and True faith : The burden of Fundamentalist Theology ...49 Populist piety: Fundamentalism as Ideology ...........60 Fundamentalism and Postmodern theology .........72 2. How shall they Posses the earth ? The radical Critique of Modern Theology Foreigners in Consumer city : The rise of Revolutionary christianity ..85 Questionable concordat : The radical Ruptura from Modern Theology ..............91 La Chispa and st. Francis Xavier ..........98 A church of the Poor ?.........107 Upending the pyramid: Christian Base communities in Europe and the United States ...118 The new Nuclei ..126 Liberation theology : The voices of the Univited ....135 But is it really theology?..150 Christian Radicals and the Failure of Modern Theology ...159 3. From the bottom and from the edges: Sources of a postmodern theology The great inversion ..175 The devil is a Modernist ..181 The gelding of God and the birth of modern religion ..........191 The Resurrection of life .....205 Toward a Postmodern theology ..216 The ancient runes speak - Postmodern theology and the world faiths..........222 Carnival faith - people`s religion and postmodern Theology ........240 A new Reformation ........262