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Today some people say we are living in a post-Christian age? What does this mean? (Find a definition and give the source). In what sense might that be truw and what sense might that not be true?

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Today some people say we are living in a post-Christian age? What does this mean? (Find a definition and give the source). In what sense might that be true and what sense might that not be true?

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Response: What do we mean by post-Christian? A lot of people may understand the term in many different ways, but this quotation is about as good as any other. You can read the whole article at http://www.uuma.org/BerryStreet/Essays/BSE1974.htm. The quotation is from Edward Cahill.

"The situation which confronts us is this: Christianity has moved through its history from a position of almost absolute dominance in the determination of cultural, social and economic patterns to its present precarious position as a vestigial institution on the periphery of our civilization. The process which has brought this about is called secularization and it is this situation against the ...

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