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Moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD) is a term that was first introduced in the 2005 book Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers by the sociologist Christian Smith [1] with Melinda Lundquist Denton. [2] The term is used to describe what they consider to be the common beliefs among young people in the United States.
Christian Stephen Smith (born 1960) is an American sociologist, currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame.Smith's research focuses primarily on religion in modernity, adolescents and emerging adults, sociological theory, philosophy of science, the science of generosity, American evangelicalism, and culture. [2]
According to the Christian view, human beings are made in the image of God. Unlike alternative views that establish a good and bad duality between mind and body, in the Christian view, both mind and body are good because both are created by God. People are made to live in harmony with others and God's will but violate this harmony when they ...
Democratic capitalism is "designed against tyranny." As such, it does not repress human vice, to the shock of outsiders like Alexander Solzhenitsyn. "Socialist societies repress sin much more effectively. They begin by repressing economic activities. A free society can tolerate vice because it believes in "the basic decency of human beings...
Bequette, John P. Christian Humanism: Creation, Redemption, and Reintegration. University Press of America, 2007. Erasmus, Desiderius, and Beatus Rhenanus. Christian Humanism and the Reformation: Selected Writings of Erasmus, with His Life by Beatus Rhenanus and a Biographical Sketch by the Editor. Fordham Univ Press, 1987. Jacobs, Alan.
A prolific writer, Smith authored or co-authored numerous books and articles on theory, on Northern Nigeria, and on the West Indies. The Smith corpus of social science publications, the M.G. Smith Archive, is on-line in www.cifas.us, 26 books, 41 articles, 41 chapters, 21 reviews and 10 unpublished manuscripts of various lengths.
Though he somewhat shared John Calvin's view of predestination, he interpreted the concept of an all-determining will of God to mean that through God's might, power, and foresight, humanity as a whole is fundamentally united in God's view and that every single person will eventually be drawn into His irresistible influence. [1]
Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry (January 22, 1913 – December 7, 2003) was an American evangelical Christian theologian who provided intellectual and institutional leadership to the neo-evangelical movement in the mid-to-late 20th century.