RT Article
T1 Conditions for the Great Religion Singularity
JF Socio-historical examination of religion and ministry
VO 1
IS 1
SP 40
OP 49
A1 McLaren, Brian D. 1956-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1761826085
AB 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.
DO 10.33929/sherm.2019.vol1.no1.05