The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity - Paperback

by Douglas John Hall (Author)

The thesis of this book is that the Christian movement can indeed have a significant future - one that will be faithful to the original vision of the movement and of immense service to our beleaguered world. But to have that future, Christians will have to stop trying to have the kind of future that sixteen centuries of official Christianity in the Western world has conditioned them to covet. Douglas John Hall examines the decline and fall of Christendom and looks at ecclesiastical responses to the end of Christendom. He proposes that the churches make their disestablishment work for good and describes how the Christian movement might serve dominant societies, classes, and institutions in a post-Christian era.

Author Biography

Douglas John Hall is a retired Professor of Christian Theology from the faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author of seventeen books, including a three-volume theology 'Thinking the Faith, Professing the Faith, and Confessing the Faith'.