Sentences with phrase «oldline lukewarmness»

Cobb provides the reader with an illuminating account of the historical and recent setting of oldline lukewarmness.

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The unifying theme of my lectures is that the failure of the church to think through the meaning of Christ for our time is the deepest cause of the lukewarmness in our oldline churches, which in turn is the deepest cause of our decline.

CHRIST AND EXCLUSIVISM The unifying theme of my lectures is that the failure of the church to think through the meaning of Christ for our time is the deepest cause of the lukewarmness in our oldline churches, which in turn is the deepest cause of our decline.

I. CHRIST AND THE LUKEWARMNESS OF OUR CHURCHES The general thesis of these lectures is that one major reason for the decline of our oldline churches is theological and that at least this cause of the decline could be reversed.

To the degree that members of oldline Protestant denominations participate in this reinstitutionalization of society and in the consequent erosion of deep values, their loyalties will be dispersed over a number of different social worlds, they will exist without what JeanFrancois Lyotard has termed a societal «master narrative,» and they will surely experience lukewarmness with respect to traditional faith.

Lukewarmness may characterize late 20th - cen tury oldline churches, but historical perspective shows that it has been long in coming.