The Church as Counterculture
Michael L. Budde, Robert W. Brimlow
- U.S.A State University of New York Press 2000
- 233tr. Paperback, Illustration 23 cm
- Suny Series in Popular Culture and Political Change .
The notion of the church as a countercultural community of disciples confounds many conventional divides within the Christian family (liberal and conservative, church and sect), while forcing redefinition of commonplace categories like religion and politics, sacred and secular. The contributors to this book--theologians, social theorists, philosophers, historians, Catholics and Protestants of various backgrounds--reflect this shifting of categories and divisions. The book provides thought-provoking Christian perspectives on war and genocide, racism and nationalism, the legitimacy of liberalism and capitalism, and more.