Two Elephants in the Room: Evolving Christianity and Leadership

With familiar candour and colour John Bodycomb excoriates church leadership for evading and layering over with platitudes two huge questions: - What future for organised religion in Western societies? and (in light of this) - What future for the so-called religious professional?Fifty years a sociologist of religion specialising in the ups and downs of organised religion Bodycomb is plain-spoken and provocative. Institutional Christianity as we have known it began to decline 600 years ago and with it a model of religious professional. We are entering a new era in which people must still make sense of existence with some kind of meaning system - but the old ones are obsolete.The defenders of tradition theologians institutional power brokers and thought police will hate Two Elephants he predicts.