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The community called church, v.1

This book was written during the heady days following Vatican 2. I believe the Church needs to heed its message even more now than it did then.

The author describes the current state of affairs in which many are losing their faith because the church seems to antiquated and preoccupied with irrelevances. On the other hand, many remaining inside the church do so because they cannot cope with `the human adventure' and use the church as an escape from the demands of modern living. As a result, the church becomes increasingly irrelevant.

When the Church ceased to be a persecuted minority group, everyone became a Christian by virtue of living within the boundaries of the Roman Empire. They weren't evangelized, weren't `converted' and their knowledge of Christian doctrine weds limited to the dumbed-down, easy-to-understand simplicities that they were taught.

If the Church is to be equipped to do its work in the complex world of today, then church members themselves need to be evangelized. The world has taken a very long time to evolve to the point when life became self-conscious - through human beings.

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Call Number
262 SEG c/1
Publisher
New York : Orbis Books.,
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xi, 172p.; 23 cm.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
088344-480-1
Classification
262
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ECCLESIOLOGY/CHURCH
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