CHRISTIANITY AND ITS CHALLENGES

The Church faces many problems: internally and externally. Internal problems are called controversies. Those from the outside are apologetic problems, that is to say which call for the defense of the faith. Let us look briefly at some internal issues within the Church, to focus our attention primarily on the challenges that lie at the interface between the Church and the world. Because that is above all where the issue lies.

There is the problem of priesthood, celibacy, tensions between church leaders, Christian and ministerial ethics, vocations and many others. The refusal to truly confront faith and intelligence, reason and the believing approach are another reality (R. Rémond, Le Christianity en accusation, p. 93). But the real problem may not be there. Isn’t the real problem within the Church above all spiritual decline and the loss of its identity? What could be at the origin of the weakness of the Church? How did she get there?

Questions plague the mind of any vigilant observer: how does the question about the Church or Christianity constitute a major concern? Why has Christianity encountered so much opposition since its existence? Can he survive in the face of all these fierce attacks? “Are things going well or badly in the Church? » asks the curious little boy. “Good and evil,” replies the Sage. An ecclesiastical response, one might say, but nonetheless the Sage is right. As Nicolas Farrell and Christophe Paya said, we should not think that all of today’s questions are new.

Certain subjects run through history, like constants. But it is up to each generation of Christians to ask themselves in what world they live, and to listen to the spiritual quest of their contemporaries. The burning questions revolve around the major centers of reflection between and others:

– theology and the main Christian doctrines and themes;
– the Bible and the global questions it poses;
– ethics and the major moral questions of today, sometimes burning and painful questions, whether individual or collective;
– culture and society, and therefore the main trends in today’s world;
– faith and religion, in order to situate the Christian faith in the very diverse religious and spiritual world in which modern globalization places us;
– philosophy and values, in other words the major trends which shape the thinking and behavior of our contemporaries.

However, the question that arises is the following: has the Church, since its existence, remained the same? Has it kept its values, its power, its authority? Students of higher studies in Theology will find what they are looking for in this book.

It is a wide-ranging theological tool for theology teachers and church leaders.

Jérémie TCHINDEBE

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Content of the book “CHRISTIANITY AND ITS CHALLENGES”.

CHAPTER I-GENERAL INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION OF CONCEPTS
CHAPTER II -A PANORAMIC LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY AND ITS CHALLENGES
I-Before Christianity
I-1: The establishment of the Conflict
I-2: The Conflict, From the First Human Birth to the Wanderings in the Desert
III-The Intertestamental Period
IV-A The Era of Christianity
V-The Church Facing the Challenge of Globalization
CHAPTER III – THE REASONS FOR THE SPIRITUAL DECLINE OF THE CHURCH
I-Spiritual blindness
II-Persecution
III-Seduction
IV-The Division
V-The Heresies
VI- The influence of postmodernity on the church
VII-The Challenges of the Third Millennium
VIII-Mental Manipulation
CHAPTER IV – CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THEOLOGICAL METHODS AND ARGUMENTS AGAINST CHRISTIANITY
I-The Response to Objections Against Christianity
1-On the existence of God
1-1: The Cosmological Argument
1-2: The Teleological Argument
1-3: The Anthropological argument

2-On the Trinity
3-Infallibility of the Bible
4-Propaganda as a Tool Against Rational Thought and the Christian Faith
5-Mental Manipulation Techniques (Seduction)
5-1: Manipulation of the Mind Through Repeated Exposure to Propaganda
5-2: Manipulation of the Mind by Circumventing Reason
5-3: Bad Reputation Techniques
5-4: Antidotes to Mental Manipulation
5-5: The Results of Mental Manipulation
5-6: Strategies Used for Mind Manipulation
6-Debate Techniques
6-1: The existence of tricks and the reasons
6-2: Multiple Meanings and Dishonest Tricks
6-3: Debaters’ Tricks
7-Suggestive Questions
7-1: What is a Leading Question?
7-2: What Are Suggestive/Non-Suggestive Questions?
7-3: The Need to Ask Leading Questions
7-4: Types of Questions
7-5: Why Do People Ask Bad Questions?
7-6: Formulating Suggestive Questions
7-7: Why Learn to Ask Leading Questions?
7-8: How to Formulate Suggestive Questions
8- How did the Church defend its faith throughout history?
CHAPTER V: THEOLOGICAL PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH
I-RETURN TO THE BIBLICAL MODEL OF CHRISTIANITY
1-In the Traces of the Primitive Church
1-1: The Fire of Spiritual Awakening
1-2: A Return to Holiness
1-3: Christ Our Model
II-THE THEOLOGICAL TRAINING OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS
2-1: Need for Training of Christian Leaders
2-2: An Apologetic Approach
2-3: Biblical Rhetorical Discourses
III-THE USE OF RHETORIC IN REFUTATION AND EVANGELIZATION IV-THEOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT OF THE CHURCH
1-1-Returning to Doctrinal Balance
2-The Church Must Be Equipped With The Apologetic Tool
3- Pentecostal Ministries
4-The Great Commission
5-Some Rules To Remove Apparent Contradictions
CHAPTER VI-GENERAL CONCLUSION
References
Bibliographic

Extract of the book “CHRISTIANITY AND ITS CHALLENGES”.

There are challenges met and succeeded. Let’s think about biblical renewal. The Bible has made its way into so many homes and there are Bible groups everywhere. And Sunday services in multitudes of Christian congregations or small denominational groups about fifty years ago. Christians are active in churches everywhere and, for many years, pastoral care has no longer been the business of a single one-man band, the priest or the pastor or the others.

God alone knows the number of reflection and prayer groups that meet every evening in homes; a number of new spirituality movements are emerging; everywhere there is a deep desire for prayer and even mysticism. On the shelves of bookstores and in libraries, a whole literature of spirituality followed the wave of the new theology with the aim of spreading the Gospel and edifying the members of these different congregations. But is it really negative?

To shed light on the subject, we opted for the critical plan. During our work, we will devote the first chapter to the introduction and definitions in order to understand the different concepts of our theme.

In the second chapter, we will address the subject of the panoramic view of the history of Christianity and its challenges. Chapter three deals with the subject “The reasons for the spiritual decline of the Church”. A critical assessment of theological methods and arguments against Christianity will be made in chapter four. In chapter five, we will propose theological prescriptions for the restoration of the church. It is in chapter six that we will mark the end of our scientific work.

Jérémie TCHINDEBE

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