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Constructing a Christian Polydoxy
Author(s) -
Pence Gary
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/1540-6385.00084
Subject(s) - spirituality , doctrine , consciousness , dialog box , context (archaeology) , sociology , epistemology , character (mathematics) , common ground , psychology , social psychology , law , philosophy , political science , history , medicine , alternative medicine , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , pathology , world wide web , computer science
In another article in this issue of Dialog [Note 1. 1. Stephen Ellingson, “Theology Update: The New Spirituality from ...]my colleague Stephen Ellingson usefully summarizes social science findings about the character of spirituality and religious belief and practice among young adults in the United States today. Especially characteristic of their emerging consciousness, he notes, is the separation between personal spirituality and organized, official, institutionalized religion, on the one hand, and their “re–grounding of religious authority in experience and practice instead of in belief and doctrine,” on the other. Although Ellingson sees both “problems and possibilities” in the new forms of spirituality that he describes, he focuses on “the theological and ecclesiological challenges posed by the new religious context.” In this article I will explore their positive possibilities.