Conditions for the Great Religion Singularity

Applying the Buddhist “law of interdependent origination,” which states that if the conditions are right, a particular phenomenon may exist, Brian McLaren provides ten conditional factors that he believes have contributed to Ken Howard’s “religion singularity” (i.e. the multi-faceted collapse of ins...

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Main Author: McLaren, Brian D. 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wipf and Stock Publishers 2019
In: Socio-historical examination of religion and ministry
Year: 2019, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 40-49
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Summary:Applying the Buddhist “law of interdependent origination,” which states that if the conditions are right, a particular phenomenon may exist, Brian McLaren provides ten conditional factors that he believes have contributed to Ken Howard’s “religion singularity” (i.e. the multi-faceted collapse of institutional Christianity). Each condition falls under two main categories: either a lack of rapid adaptability in religious institutions or the moral failure of institutional leaders. The ten conditional factors include authoritarian centralization, betrayal of the religious founder’s non-violence, a history of unacknowledged atrocities, military imperialism, white supremacy, scandals, reaction against scientific inquiry, doubling down on dualism, integrated and change-averse institutional systems, and paralysis and nostalgia.
ISSN:2637-7500
Contains:Enthalten in: Socio-historical examination of religion and ministry
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.33929/sherm.2019.vol1.no1.05