The Postmodern Life Cycle: Challenges for Church and Theology

by Schweitzer, Friedrich

• ISBN13: 9780827229983
• ISBN10: 0827229984
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Chalice Pr

Summary

Schweitzer's goal in this book is to explore what postmodernity actually means for theology and how theology and the church may respond to its challenges. He focuses on the life cycle as it is changing with the advent of postmodernity, looking sequentially at segments of the life cycle using different lenses: modernity, postmodernity, and responses from church and theology. Schweitzer concludes with a theology of the life cycle.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(3)
The Religious Demands of Postmodern Life	4	(19)
Challenges for Practical Theology
Born into a Plural World	23	(17)
Growing Up between Multicultural Richness and Religious Homelessness
In Search of a Faith of One's Own	40	(24)
The Identity of Plural Selves in Adolescence
Religious Affiliation and Distancing in Postadolescence	64	(17)
The Impact of a Neglected Period of Life
Church, Individual Religion, Public Responsibility	81	(16)
Images of Faith between Modern and Postmodern Adulthood
Between Adulthood and Old Age	97	(17)
The Question of a ``Third Age''
Theological Demands on Postmodern Life	114	(22)
Toward a Theology of the Life Cycle
Epilogue	136	(4)
Still a Life Cycle?
Notes	140