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Secular Lives, Sacred Hearts contends that the traditional sociological account of secular Britain is misleading and that we should learn to think in terms of the nation being 'culturally Christian'. The church should therefore take seriously those occasions when ministry is sought - such as baptisms, weddings and funerals - and try to puzzle out what it is that people are seeking. Offering some clues based on small scale research done in his own parish, the author argues for a recovery of the idea of the local church as a parish church - concerned for all within its boundaries. The overall purpose of the book is to encourage both clergy and laity at a time when the winds of secularism are blowing a little cool.
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The Revd Alan Billings is Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at the University of Lancaster, and an Anglican parish priest in Kendal. He is the author of Dying and Grieving: A Guide to Pastoral Ministry (SPCK 2002).
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An Anglican friend recommended this book and I anticipated that this analysis of faith in today's England would be less relevant to the Roman Catholic church in which I minister. Not a bit of it! The problems we face are identical, as are our failing responses.
The section on reasons for requesting Baptism of infants, I found particularly interesting. Often I have had conversations with Grandmothers, whose reasons for wishing the child baptised would differ significantly from those which might be given by the parents, and this brings home the changing perceptions of salvation and of God's love for his people. Contrasting this also with changing emphases on the theological outcomes of baptism, a different sociological presentation of the event in the life story may be appropriate.
This is a very timely and thought provoking book and the principles discussed deserve a wider discussion, not only in parishes and individual church communities, but in deaneries and dioceses.
The section on reasons for requesting Baptism of infants, I found particularly interesting. Often I have had conversations with Grandmothers, whose reasons for wishing the child baptised would differ significantly from those which might be given by the parents, and this brings home the changing perceptions of salvation and of God's love for his people. Contrasting this also with changing emphases on the theological outcomes of baptism, a different sociological presentation of the event in the life story may be appropriate.
This is a very timely and thought provoking book and the principles discussed deserve a wider discussion, not only in parishes and individual church communities, but in deaneries and dioceses.
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