God After the Church Lost Control: Sociological Analysis and Critical-Constructive Theology

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Jan-Olav Henriksen Pal Repstad

God After the Church Lost Control

Sociological Analysis and Critical-Constructive Theology

Jan-Olav Henriksen, Pal Repstad

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Routledge
29 January 2024

Religion & beliefs; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects

Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies

This book combines insights from sociology of religion and theology to consider the fundamental changes that have taken place in how people think about God in contemporary Western society. It can be said that God has become irrelevant for many people, often as a result of well-grounded ethical critique of churches. Here the authors argue for the necessity of rethinking God-talk in a pluralist and changing context and for thinking critically about hegemonic ways of speaking about God from a moral and experiential perspective, not only from the point of view of abstract theology. Drawing on empirical material from a Norwegian setting, the book advocates a critical-constructive theology with a notion of God that takes human experience and social change seriously. It depicts a God who is an enabler of moral maturity rather than an authoritarian moral instructor, a God who is on the side of the marginalized and poor, and a challenge to unjust hierarchies.

By: Jan-Olav Henriksen, Pal Repstad
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032306742
ISBN 10: 1032306742
Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Pages: 161
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Why this Book? 1 On God and change 2 Religious trends in Northern Europe – an overview 3 Does society shape God? 4 The changing Christian God 5 The crisis of theology – and why it matters for speaking about God 6 The morally intolerable God – and the alternative 7 The politically dangerous God – a God of love 8 God as she? Why can’t she be? 9 Pluralism challenges notions of God and religious truth 10 When God becomes irrelevant to society’s challenges 11 God as vulnerable love? Bibliography

Jan-Olav Henriksen is Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion at the Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society (MF) in Oslo, Norway. Pål Repstad is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway.