http://ekklesia.co.uk/research Ekklesia research papers en http://ekklesia.co.uk/research/faithandpoliticsafterchristendom <div class="field field-type-text field-field-abstract"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p><img src="http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/images/faithandpoliticssmall.jpg" class="image right">This book examines the changing relationship between faith and politics. For the best part of 1700 years, the institutional church has enjoyed a hand-in-hand relationship with government. Indeed, the church has often been seen as the glue that has stopped political systems from disintegrating into anarchy. But in this post-Christendom era the relation of Church and State has weakened to the point where the church can no longer claim to play any significant part in Government. What does the future hold? Where is it all heading? What should be done in the face of radicalised religion?</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><a href="/user/4" title="View user profile.">Jonathan Bartley</a></div> </div> </div> http://ekklesia.co.uk/research/faithandpoliticsafterchristendom#comment Community and Family Crime and Justice Ecology and Environment Economy and Politics Education and Culture Globalisation and Development Life and Death Peace and War People and Power Race and Identity Religion and Society Sex and Gender . blasphemy bishops christendom christian peacemaker teams christian unions christian violence church attendence church schools disestablishment faith and politics faith schools house of lords jonathan bartley poppy post-Christendom religious hatred Research Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:15:18 +0100 Press Office 101 at http://ekklesia.co.uk http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/89 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-abstract"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>In the wake of public concerns about the relationship between religion and terror, this book raises questions about how some church teaching about the death of Jesus could be linked to the approval of violence.</p> <p>Consuming Passion: Why the Killing of Jesus Really Matters, contains essays by a group of British, American and Australian writers which suggest that some popular misunderstandings about the meaning of the death of Jesus Christ may reinforce conflict, division and suffering in today’s world.</p> <p>The collection of diverse essays shows that theology is not an obscure academic matter or an issue of concern only to a particular religious in-group.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><a href="/user/4" title="View user profile.">Jonathan Bartley</a></div> </div> </div> http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/89#comment Crime and Justice Life and Death Peace and War atonement cross religious violence Research theology Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:36:38 +0100 Press Office 89 at http://ekklesia.co.uk