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,A Garland in Place of Ashes':1Transformative Spirituality and Mission in the Post-Modern and Secular Contexts

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 2 2009
Peter Cruchley-Jones
In this paper I aim to explore not what is the so-called ,post-modern and secular context' but how the church responds to it, which is predominantly to blame it for ,decline'. Yet it may not be decline, it may be something else altogether. I am reflecting on a western/UK context, but within this are theological assumptions that characterize the wider church. So, having made some remarks on how to approach decline I will then explore some transformations of spirituality and mission that are responses to the post-modern and secular context. Underlying this is an attitude to ,spirituality' which is not about how we worship or our experience of the ,ethereal' but is about our ,capacity for life'. But, I want to maintain that nothing new or transformative can emerge until the church stops resenting and despairing of the context and change we are experiencing. Further, I am not convinced the church in the UK or the West is able to adapt to the strangeness of this new context and will seek always to bring it back under church control. But, I will then offer a post-modern image for transformative spirituality and mission that could leave its mark on the church. [source]

The arrest of William Thorpe in Shrewsbury and the anti,Lollard statute of 1406

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 189 2002
Maureen Jurkowski
This article publishes a Public Record Office document giving new insight into the arrest and trial of the Lollard chaplain William Thorpe, for which the only previously known source was the narrative account written by Thorpe himself. It reveals also that Thorpe was detained under authority of the 1406 anti,Lollard statute. Drawing on various archival sources, the article examines both the circumstances of Thorpe's arrest and the 1406 legislation. It concludes that the statute was an initiative of Archbishop Arundel which attempted to exploit his tenure of the chancellor's office for ecclesiastical purposes. This secular context explains the irregular nature of Thorpe's ,trial'. [source]

,A Garland in Place of Ashes':1Transformative Spirituality and Mission in the Post-Modern and Secular Contexts

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 2 2009
Peter Cruchley-Jones
In this paper I aim to explore not what is the so-called ,post-modern and secular context' but how the church responds to it, which is predominantly to blame it for ,decline'. Yet it may not be decline, it may be something else altogether. I am reflecting on a western/UK context, but within this are theological assumptions that characterize the wider church. So, having made some remarks on how to approach decline I will then explore some transformations of spirituality and mission that are responses to the post-modern and secular context. Underlying this is an attitude to ,spirituality' which is not about how we worship or our experience of the ,ethereal' but is about our ,capacity for life'. But, I want to maintain that nothing new or transformative can emerge until the church stops resenting and despairing of the context and change we are experiencing. Further, I am not convinced the church in the UK or the West is able to adapt to the strangeness of this new context and will seek always to bring it back under church control. But, I will then offer a post-modern image for transformative spirituality and mission that could leave its mark on the church. [source]

THE MORAL REQUIREMENT IN THEISTIC AND SECULAR ETHICS

THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2010
PATRICK LOOBUYCK
One of the central tasks of meta-ethical inquiry is to accommodate the common-sense assumptions deeply embedded in our moral discourse. A comparison of the potential of secular and theistic ethics shows that, in the end, theists have a greater facility in achieving this accommodation task; it is easier to appreciate the action-guiding authority and binding nature of morality in a theistic rather than in a secular context. Theistic ethics has a further advantage in being able to accommodate not only this essential conceptual feature of morality, but also the existence of moral requirements and their source of normativity. [source]

,A Garland in Place of Ashes':1Transformative Spirituality and Mission in the Post-Modern and Secular Contexts

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 2 2009
Peter Cruchley-Jones
In this paper I aim to explore not what is the so-called ,post-modern and secular context' but how the church responds to it, which is predominantly to blame it for ,decline'. Yet it may not be decline, it may be something else altogether. I am reflecting on a western/UK context, but within this are theological assumptions that characterize the wider church. So, having made some remarks on how to approach decline I will then explore some transformations of spirituality and mission that are responses to the post-modern and secular context. Underlying this is an attitude to ,spirituality' which is not about how we worship or our experience of the ,ethereal' but is about our ,capacity for life'. But, I want to maintain that nothing new or transformative can emerge until the church stops resenting and despairing of the context and change we are experiencing. Further, I am not convinced the church in the UK or the West is able to adapt to the strangeness of this new context and will seek always to bring it back under church control. But, I will then offer a post-modern image for transformative spirituality and mission that could leave its mark on the church. [source]