The Only Christian Century - Skulicz, Matthew
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HAS JESUS' MESSAGE SURVIVED THE CENTURIES? Our current "culture wars" and new assertions of privileged religious beliefs provide the context for this question. When Christians attend church on Sunday, do they receive the authentic teachings of Jesus in their pastor's message? Or are they contenting themselves with something else? Bible-reading Christians know something about the times in which Jesus lived, and they are familiar with the times in which we live now. But most know very little about how the Christian church grew and developed its beliefs over the intervening 1900 years. These…mehr

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HAS JESUS' MESSAGE SURVIVED THE CENTURIES? Our current "culture wars" and new assertions of privileged religious beliefs provide the context for this question. When Christians attend church on Sunday, do they receive the authentic teachings of Jesus in their pastor's message? Or are they contenting themselves with something else? Bible-reading Christians know something about the times in which Jesus lived, and they are familiar with the times in which we live now. But most know very little about how the Christian church grew and developed its beliefs over the intervening 1900 years. These Christians can tell you what they believe, but they cannot tell you how those beliefs arose and mutated and found their way into the Christian belief-set and into the messages of today's preachers. I invite you to join me on a journey through time, watching as the Christian church found and grew into its unique place in Euro-American life. As we go, we'll consider how the Christian church responded to the various needs of its adherents and to the objections of its deniers, and how in the course of time, it has strayed from its embrace of the life-giving teachings of Jesus.
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Matthew Skulicz is a PhD in Medieval English literature and the History of the English Language. He is an ordained Permanent Deacon of the Roman Catholic Church, retired. After retirement, he was a full-time staff chaplain at a Catholic hospital in Buffalo, New York. He publishes essays on spirituality and social commentary on the blogsite, goddesire.com. This website and his book, "The Only Christian Century," detail his lifelong pursuit of truth and spiritual integration, his struggle with and abandonment of organized religion, his criticism of the motives and behaviors of contemporary American Christianity, of the folly and the shamefulness of current American politics, and of the misdirection of the American capitalist social structure.