http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/12/pagans-have-winter-holiday-you-can.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/12/pagans-have-winter-holiday-you-can.html#comment-21444 Jason Pitzl-Waters Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:13:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/12/pagans-have-a-winter-holiday-you-can-celebrate-it-too.html#comment-21444 "That would be an ecumenical matter..."Yes! “That would be an ecumenical matter…”Yes!

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/12/pagans-have-winter-holiday-you-can.html#comment-21443 catvincent Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:31:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/12/pagans-have-a-winter-holiday-you-can-celebrate-it-too.html#comment-21443 'I can only imagine how a story about a local Catholic parish that repeatedly referenced "Father Ted" would be received by the faithful.'That would be an ecumenical matter... ‘I can only imagine how a story about a local Catholic parish that repeatedly referenced “Father Ted” would be received by the faithful.’That would be an ecumenical matter…

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/12/pagans-have-winter-holiday-you-can.html#comment-21442 Jason Pitzl-Waters Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:04:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/12/pagans-have-a-winter-holiday-you-can-celebrate-it-too.html#comment-21442 The idea of a "post-Christianity" or a "post-Christendom" has been around for several decades. It first gained notice in the sixties with the "God is Dead" crowd (a wildly misunderstood line of thought), but has since been picked up by many Christians to describe the thoroughly secularized nature of many European countries. The term, while new to some, has been kicked around in academia for quite some time. Just take a look at <a HREF="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=post-christianity&btnG=Search" rel="nofollow">the search results in Google Scholar</a> just to start with (then you can <a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=post-christian&x=0&y=0" rel="nofollow">start going through the Amazon listings</a>). There are several books and major scholarly publications that are discussing the extent and meaning of a "post-Christian" society. The idea of a “post-Christianity” or a “post-Christendom” has been around for several decades. It first gained notice in the sixties with the “God is Dead” crowd (a wildly misunderstood line of thought), but has since been picked up by many Christians to describe the thoroughly secularized nature of many European countries. The term, while new to some, has been kicked around in academia for quite some time. Just take a look at the search results in Google Scholar just to start with (then you can start going through the Amazon listings). There are several books and major scholarly publications that are discussing the extent and meaning of a “post-Christian” society.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/12/pagans-have-winter-holiday-you-can.html#comment-21441 Tomb Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:39:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/12/pagans-have-a-winter-holiday-you-can-celebrate-it-too.html#comment-21441 I don't know about the post-Christian world. Is their any major publicational evidence or such on that it is happening? What would such a world be like and who would bring it about>? I don't know about the post-Christian world. Is their any major publicational evidence or such on that it is happening? What would such a world be like and who would bring it about>?

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