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Philip Jenkins
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June 2014
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Philip Jenkins
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SPCK
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June 2014
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Throughout history, secular disasters have driven religious change. Repeatedly, wars and natural catastrophes have ignited influential new movements in religion - fundamental shifts in religious consciousness, fervent revivalism and awakenings, and apocalyptic expectation. Frequently, such events have spawned wholly new denominations. Rarely, though, in human history have the four horsemen of the Apocalypse - war, famine, plague, and death - rampaged so freely as they did in the years of the First World War, 1914-1918. Although this cataclysm reshaped the world's religious map, no historian has ever drawn together the global impact to make a simple point: the era of the First World War created the world's religious map as we know it today. The war constituted a worldwide spiritual revolution. This is a tale with many remarkable narrative incidents and characters, from Karl Barth to Carl Jung; one that is all the more powerful because of the interplay of worldly politics and spiritual crisis. The Great and Holy War presents a new theory of religious change.
In religion, as in politics and culture, we should see the pace of change not as gradual evolution but as what biologists call punctuated equilibrium - long periods of relative stasis and stability, interrupted by rare but very fast moving moments of revolutionary or cataclysmic change, which then take decades or centuries for the mainstream to absorb fully. Like them or not, revolutions are the key to religious history. And we cannot understand our present religious, political, and cultural climate without understanding the dramatic changes initiated by the First World War.
Author
Philip Jenkins
Book Format
eBook (Christian360)
Publisher
SPCK
Published
June 2014
Edition
1st Digital original
Page Count
432
Dimensions
156 x 234 mm
ISBN
9780745956749
ISBN-10
0745956742
Eden Code
4274460
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Author/Creator: Philip Jenkins
ISBN: 9780745956749
Publisher: SPCK
Release Date: June 2014
Dimensions: 156 x 234 mm
Eden Code: 4274460