Rupert Shortt: The death of Christianity would be a disaster for everyone
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Rupert Shortt is an author and research associate at the Von Hugel Institute, University Of Cambridge and a former Religion Editor for the Times Literary Supplement.
His latest book ’The Eclipse of Christianity… and why it matters’ has been praised by Tom Holland as ‘ A brilliant survey of Christianity’s decline in Britain- how it happened and why it matters, by one of our most learned and stimulating apologists’.
Belle and Justin talk with Rupert about why mainstream churches are in decline across the West and why Europe’s historic faith remains critical to the survival of humane culture.
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Beautiful sentiment about a world crying out for forgiveness. Lord have mercy on me, a sinner
All is well. God is sovereign and his Word is unchained.
The metric used here is.......Attendance at Church.....................what does that mean?
It may well be that the rise of secularism has something to do with the decline in Christianity. However, it seems to me that it is the fundamentals of Christianity and for that matter Judaism and Islam that is causing and will cause their own demise.
It is due to the rise of a materialist approach to life that the stranglehold that religion had on the freedom of thought was finally broken and the old God died allowing for the rise of more real forms of relating to and experiencing God.
Many thinkers today seem to be pointing in the general direction of a form of Sufism that suggests a more truthful account of Reality. Revelation just doesn’t cut it any longer.
The teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat Khan and similar Sufi masters seem to me to address the meaning crisis more accurately than any convoluted mystical reinterpretation of the Trinity.
Excruciatingly boring.
And you watched for how long?