Modern Church Challenges

Modern Church Challenges

Introduction

Today we live in a scientific and technical based society which is a remarkable feature that immense progress has been made ??to scientific and technical level. It also amounts of goods that this development has contributed to the person and society. However, they are all positive impacts, but also find negative aspects, such as, the fascination of the man before his conquests into believing that God is like, an Absolutizing science. This makes him to exclude faith as unnecessary, the trend to create an antagonism between faith and science or a dualism which are used for all science and faith for what cannot be understood. Moreover, the culture of consumption and welfare displays the excess of goods produced fuels boundless spirit consumption, through techniques that generate manipulative in man the desire to have and possess, keep, accumulate. Thus, there is the search for material well-being and attachment to the land often leads to turn the aspiration toward the transcendent and the hope of seeking happiness by excluding God (Johnson, 2011).

However, the modern church system faces lots of problems as the current society has implemented several notions that contradict the religious values. Thus, the church on several notions has it cover according to the religious values of the phenomenon and democracy permits those deeds.

Discussion

There are several notions which highlights as the important factors for the challenges for the church, as they do not have the strong command which they used to have. However, there is the separation of church and state is the concept that religious and political authority ought to be clearly distinct, though both may claim the allegiance of the people. The concept lies at the heart of the U.S. Constitution's treatment of religion in the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Yet despite the First Amendment, the precise boundaries of church and state have remained unsettled throughout American history. Some have argued that the government cannot support or otherwise accommodate religion in any way, while others have insisted that government must acknowledge the importance of religion and provide religious group's access to the same public resources available to secular groups (Johnson, 2011).

Thus, religion in the 19th century was aligned with the government in many different ways, though direct establishment of any church was strictly avoided. Religion could not be institutionalized in the form of a state church, but it could be supported as an integral feature of cultural life through public education and other means. It was not until the early 20th century that these traditional church-state alignments began to lose some of their influence. The cultural changes that provided an impetus for altered church-state relations are quite complex; increasing religious pluralism and new theories in science, theology, and law played a role. Far from the 19th-century belief that religion was fundamental component of public order and therefore worthy of state support, intellectuals and other elites began to suggest that religion was ...