The Future Church
How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
New York : Doubleday, [2009]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 469 pages ; 25 cm
Offers a forecast about the future of the Catholic Church and the implications of the changes that will occur, identifying ten important trends that will revolutionize the the policies, doctrines, and practices of Catholicism over the next century.
Contents:
Trend one : a world church -- Trend two : evangelical Catholicism -- Trend three : Islam -- Trend four : the new demography -- Trend five : expanding lay roles -- Trend six : the biotech revolution -- Trend seven : globalization -- Trend eight : ecology -- Trend nine : multipolarism -- Trend ten : Pentecostalism -- Trends that aren't -- Catholicism in the twenty-first century.
Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Forecasting.
Christian sociology -- Catholic Church -- Forecasting.
Twenty-second century -- Forecasts.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Forecasting.
Christian sociology -- Catholic Church -- Forecasting.
Twenty-second century -- Forecasts.
ISBN:
9780385520386 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
RELIGION Christian Catholic All | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.