Christianity has influenced Western culture more than any factor save human nature itself, and yet its influence is now greatly diminished. Reactions to this have usually taken the form of a Hegelian affirmation that Christianity, having served its historical purpose, is no longer important in itself; a nostalgic conservatism which rejects the culture of modernity simply; or a revivalism which ignores it. An alternative view rests on an analysis of culture and the enlightenment process of secularization to which the Church reacted by closing in on itself until the Second Vatican Council affirmed the legitimate autonomy of the secular. The Church itself, partly to blame for secularization through its practical demystification of nature and attempt to coercively supplant all pre- and non-Christian religious experience, should engage modernity while giving witness to human dignity and promoting a more human culture. Such a constructive recovery of Christian culture must avoid both politicization and moralism.
Preliminary Material -- Introductory Essay: Theology of Culture, Secularity, and Plurality /Wessel Stoker -- The Background and Nature of the Deep Changes in the Religious Realities in Modern Europe /André Droogers -- The Concept of Culture in Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, and Karl Barth /Cornelis van der Kooi -- The Role of Faith in Science and in Religion /Keith Ward -- Christian Faith and Reason: A Hermeneutical Approach /Edwin Koster -- Amor Mundi in a (Post)Liberal Era: The Relevance of an Arendtian Theme for Christian Self-Understanding Today /Ronald A. Kuipers -- Equality, Difference, and Justice /Ton van Prooijen -- Business Ethics and Intrinsic Motivation in a Pluralist World /Connie Aarsbergen -- Renewal of Civilization: Toward Justice and Peace /Henk E.S. Woldring -- Populism: A Blessing in Disguise for Democracy? /Govert J. Buijs -- Poverty, Oppression, and Christian Faith /Jerald D. Gort -- The Public Role of Churches in Present Democratic South Africa /Etienne de Villiers -- Imagination and Art in the Christian Faith: On Imagination and Art in the Church /Desiree Berendsen -- Language, Literature, and Transcendence: The Contribution of F.R. Leavis /Henry Jansen -- Readiness and Timing: The Early Modern Virtues of Hamlet's Providential Christianity /Lourens Minnema -- Indigenous Spirituality and Sustainable Development: A Critical Appraisal of African Renaissance Rhetoric /Frans Wijsen -- African Philosophy, Contextualisation, Multiculturalism /W.L. van der Merwe -- Untouchables, Christians, and Hindus: How the Sacred World Order is Preserved and Renounced /Victor van Bijlert -- Contemporary Christian-Hindu Relations in Britain and the Netherlands /Jan Peter Schouten -- Superseded, Obstructive, or Crucial?: Christian Views of Judaism and its Sacred Texts /Alberdina Houtman -- Recent Developments in Christian-Jewish Dialogue /Simon Schoon -- Sympathy and Empathy: The Compassionate Bodhisattva and the Love of Christ /John D'Arcy May -- Christian and Buddhist Spiritualities: Their Differences and Complementarities /Christa Anbeek -- Present-Day Europe and Islam in Encounter: Emerging European Islam and its Dialogue Partners /Gé Speelman -- The Council of Churches in the Netherlands and its Encounter with Islam /Alle G. Hoekema -- Proximity and Distance China and the Christian West: An Essay in Intercultural Philosophy /Sander Griffioen -- Christian Views of the New Religiosities of the Western World /Reender Kranenborg -- Recent Ecclesiological Developments in the World Council of Churches: Continuity or Discontinuity? /Conrad J. Wethmar -- Conversion in the Ecumenical Debate: Great Joy or Great Discomfort? /Jan van Butselaar -- Confessio and Traditio: A Reformed Approach in Dialogue with the Lutheran Tradition /Michael Weinrich -- Christianity and Culture: WARC at the Millennium /George Newlands -- Intercultural Theology as the Integration of Ecumenism and Missiology: The Example of Current Latin American Christology /Martien E. Brinkman -- God Has No Favourites: Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue The Unity of God's Creation /Anton Houtepen -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Contributors.
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