Christianity after Christendom

What comes after the end of Christendom? Christianity has ceased to function as the dominant force in society and yet the Christian faith continues. How are we to understand Christianity in this 'after'? <br/> <br/>Bringing into conversation seven unorthodox or 'heretical' continental philosophers including Jan Patocka Jean-Luc Nancy Gianni Vattimo and John D. Caputo Martin Koci re-centres the debates around philosophy's so-called return to religion to address the current 'not-Christian but not yet non-Christian' culture. <br/> <br/>In the modern context of increasing secularization and pluralization <i> Christianity after Christendom</i> boldly proposes that Christians must embrace the demise of Christianity as a meta-narrative and see their faith as an existential mode of being-in-the-world. Whilst not denying the religion's history this 'after' of Christianity emancipates the discourse from the socio-historical focus on Christendom and introduces new perspectives on Christianity as an embodied religious tradition as a way of being even as a faithfulness to the world. <br/> <br/>In dialogue with a broad range of philosophical movements including deconstruction phenomenology hermeneutics and postmodern critiques of religion this is a timely examination of the present and future of post-Christendom Christianity.