Secularisation

  • Secularisation – theory or ideology?
  • Secularisation as ideology – liberal, political, critical.
  • Militant Atheism
  • Individualisation of religion to the personal sphere
  • Christianity and public life
  • Post secularism and religious resurgence. Fresh expressions. The Scriptural Reasoning movement.
  • Roman Catholic response to secularisation – Vatican 2
  • Christian Responses to wealth
  • Marx & Liberation Theology – A preferential option for the poor; orthodoxy and orthopraxis

Guest lecturers: AC Grayling and Tom Holland.

Approx 15 hours guided learning.