The Christian Countercult Movement
Part of Elements in New Religious Movements
- Author: Douglas E. Cowan, Renison University College, Ontario
- Date Published: August 2023
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009054171
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Many seemingly strange questions on yoga, salvation, religious pluralism, and so forth have been actively debated among members of a small but influential group of evangelical apologists known as the Christian countercult movement. This Element explores the history of this movement from its origins in the anti-heresy writings of the early church to its modern development as a reaction to religious pluralism in North America. It contrasts the apologetic Christian countercult movement with its secular anticult counterpart and explains how faith-based opposition both to new religious movements and to non-Christian religions will only deepen as religious pluralism increases. It provides a concise understanding of the two principal goals of Christian countercult apologetics: support for the evangelization of non-Christian believers and maintenance for the perceived superiority of the evangelical Christian worldview.
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- Date Published: August 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009054171
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 5 mm
- weight: 0.13kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Introducing the Christian countercult
1. The Christian countercult in historical perspective
2. The modern countercult movement in North America
3. Telling the Christian countercult from the secular anticult
4. Reality-maintenance and the Christian countercult movement
5. The future of the Christian countercult
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