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The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, internationally acclaimed theologian Graham Ward examines the political side of postmodernism in order to discern the contemporary context of the church and describe the characteristics of a faithful, political discipleship. His study falls neatly into two sections. The first, which is the more theoretical section, considers “the signs of the times.” Ward names this section “The...

the secular public sphere, and since that time its presence has continued to grow until today it dominates that sphere. There are, broadly speaking, three forms of this new visibility of religion. The first form has been the most widely discussed and examined: religious fundamentalism. In 1977 Daniel Bell predicted that this would be the “strongest element in a religious revival” among people seeking tradition after the “exhaustion of Modernism.”42 Fundamentalism
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