| Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity Contributor(s): Murchison, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594032300 ISBN-13: 9781594032301 Publisher: Encounter Books OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: William Murchison examines the cultural corruption of the Episcopal Church and contextualizes his observations within the larger framework of the fate of mainline Protestantism in contemporary American society. The Church of England, which is heavily covered in The Times and The Daily Telegraph, is the mother church of the Episcopal Church -- which latter body is mainly responsible for the crisis at hand. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Episcopalian |
| Dewey: 283.730 |
| LCCN: 2008048048 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It's not that the dignified and rarefied old Episcopal Church quit believing in God. It's that the God you increasingly hear spoken of in Episcopal circles is infinitely tolerant and given to sudden changes of mind--not quite the divinity you thought you were reading about in the scriptures. Episcopalians of the twenty-first century, like their counterparts in other churches of the so-called American mainline--such as Methodists and Presbyterians--seem to prefer a God that the culture would be proud of, as against a culture that God would be proud of. While they work to rebrand and reshelve orthodox Christianity for the modern market, exponents of the new thinking are busy reducing mainstream Christian witness to a shadow of its former self. Mortal Follies is the story of the Episcopal Church's mad dash to catch up with a secular culture fond of self-expression and blissfully relaxed as to norms and truths. An Episcopal layman, William Murchison details how leaders of his church, starting in the late 1960s, looked over the culture of liberation, liked what they saw, and went skipping along with the shifting cultural mood--especially when the culture demanded that the church account for its sins of heterosexism and racism. Episcopalians have blended so deeply into the cultural woodwork that it's hard sometimes to remember that it all began as a divine calling to the normative and the eternal. |