[Oe List ...] Can Christianity Be Saved? Can Religion Be Saved?

[R Williams]

Last week New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote an article asking "Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved?" in which he asserted that manifestations of liberal Christianity, like the Episcopal Church, are facing imminent death.
 
Diana Butler Ross, author of the recent book Christianity After Religion, responded to Douthat this week in the HuffPost, suggesting that conservative churches as well as liberal ones are declining.  She broadens the question to, "Can Christianity Be Saved?"  She ultimately asks, can liberal churches save Christianity?  She refers to isolated instances of local churches that are experiencing renewal, but suggests "the denominational structures have yet to adjust their institutions to the recovery of practical wisdom that is remaking local congregations."
 
You may access Bass's article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-butler-bass/can-christianity-be-saved-1_b_1674807.h
 
The question could perhaps be taken to yet another level by asking, "Can religion be saved?" Or perhaps even more relevant, using our language and concerns from the 60s and 70s, is the question, "Can movemental Christianity survive and thrive without the institutional church?"
 
Randy

"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires."
-Martin Buber (adapted)
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