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the suicide of liberal Christianity

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An edition of The empty church (1996)

The empty church

the suicide of liberal Christianity

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America is in a state of spiritual decline. According to recent opinion polls and election returns, Americans are deeply concerned about the quality of life in this country. While liberals want big government to solve social problems like violent crime, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and welfare dependency, conservatives believe local authorities, especially churches, are the only ones who can bring values and wholesome prosperity back to American life. But, argues historian Thomas Reeves, if we expect churches to improve our communities, we must first address a more pressing question: Do churches really matter anymore? In this alarming expose of America's mainline Protestant churches, historian Thomas C. Reeves asserts that these once hallowed houses of worship do not matter nearly so much as they used to, and that, in fact, they are consistently unappealing and irrelevant. - Jacket flap.

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Free Press
Language
English
Pages
276

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Subjects
Liberalism (Religion), History, Protestant churches, Church membership, Church history, Liberalismus, Libéralisme (Religion), Kirchengliedschaft, Protestantismus, Histoire, Histoire religieuse, Église, Églises protestantes, Appartenance
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United States
Times
20th century

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The Empty Church: Does Organized Religion Matter Anymore
January 7, 1998, Free Press
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The empty church: the suicide of liberal Christianity
1996, Free Press
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Table of Contents

Confused and helpless
Consumer Christianity
Secular religions
Up to the precipice
Stuck in the sixties
Renewing the mainline

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-262) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
280/.4/09730904
Library of Congress
BR526 .R434 1996

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xi, 276 p.
Number of pages
276
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL976290M
Internet Archive
emptychurchsuici0000reev
ISBN 10
0684828111
LCCN
96013401
OCLC/WorldCat
34514699
Library Thing
154918
Goodreads
927108

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