Christianity in the Twenty-First Century
Murnion, Philip J.
BOOKS What's missing in this picture? Robert Wuthnow would be CHRISTIANITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST constitutes community. The...
...emphasis added] when meeting only Twenty-first Century, which constitutes a Community is central and Wuthnow once a week...
...This immediacy of community is religious studies as well as a rich trove of Philip J. Murnion perhaps finally expressed in the Epilogue personal anecdotes from the lives of church where he expresses his fear that the members and leaders...
...He would present churches may be ill-suited to provide all of this in an irenic and respectful man- tives...
...as from his description of church dynam- -Kenneth L. Woorhvard, ics set in play when responding to these Religion Editor, NEWSWEEK forces...
...The First Modern Pope Catholicism is treated only in passing, PETER HEBBLETHWAITE though readers concerned with its future 768 pages "When Vatican officials get round to measuring 16 pages of photos will benefit from Wuthnow's reflections $29.95 cloth Paul VI for canonization...
...He treatment of religion in post-World War community, the church itself must now wonders if they are adequately Christian II America...
...within the 997 Macarthur Blvd...
...The features he a valuable participant in CENTURY looks for in church community seem to any symposium on Robert Wuthnow boil down to mutual personal support and American religion...
...ical, doctrinal, political, and cultural chal- -Robert F Drinan, S.J...
...The obstacles are, in the culture, individualism, Paulist Press mobility, and materialism...
...These character of commitment that is a com- people to "forge some intimate bond" qualities are evident in Christianity in the mon problem to both church and society...
...and the temporary and utilitarian community, unrealistically expecting ner that would encourage dialogue...
...Mahwah, NJ 07430 churches themselves, a preoccupation 201-825-7300 with bureaucratic needs and the polarization between liberals and conservaCommonweal 4 June 1993: 23...
...they'll have too few on the social and cultural forces affecting better witnesses than this lively and altogether religious believers and the churches as well remarkable reconstruction of his life...
...This volume, filled with fascinating details Wuthnow's concern is with the main- of politics and world history, puts Pope Paul VI in a new and welcome perspectenance of individual and communal tive...
...BOOKS What's missing in this picture...
...These challenges can be met, respectively, if the church can be a community that is: mutually supportive, compassionate, inclusive, able to mediate A1 w.ur hr-krturr religious values and public life, and ground a secure personal identity...
...warrant that choice and commitment...
...This life of Montini is comidentity in the midst of institutional, eth- prehensive, candid and compelling...
...The Future of Liberal American Protestantism, for, though both fundamentalism and the "religious Right" are given considerable attention, Wuthnow betrays a PAUL VI need to explain the two mainly as challenges to mainstream Protestantism...
...care among those who live near each has a broad knowledge of other...
...or sustainable without institutional supThis new book might be better titled, But there is little precision about what port...
...It is surprising then that he kind of updating of The Restructuring of considers it progress that, where family is skeptical of the small group movement American Religion (Princeton), his 1988 or state once determined one's religious for fostering Christian community...
...He Oxford University Press, $25, 251 pp...
...lenges...
Vol. 120 • June 1993 • No. 11
