@inbook{doi:10.1002/9781118556115.ch17,
title = {Ideologies, the Quest for a Just Society, and Christian Responses},
author = {Govert Buijs},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118556115.ch17},
doi = {10.1002/9781118556115.ch17},
isbn = {9781118556115},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity},
pages = {200-217},
publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
chapter = {17},
abstract = {In the past two hundred years worldwide Christianity has been deeply affected by ideologies, like communism, national socialism, or nationalism. In this chapter it is argued that ideologies emerge in a context that is shaped by Christianity and its evocation of a better, more perfect, more just world. In a way, ideologies mirror and imitate certain Christian aspirations, but in a twisted form. This sets the scene for various Christian responses: supporting ideologies, using them as a heuristic framework, identifying them as idolatry, or seeing them as challenges that have to be met by Christianity on its own terms (as happens for example in Christian social thought). Although since the end of the twentieth century there is a lot of talk about the “end of ideologies,” the underlying mechanism of searching for recipes for earthly perfection at the cost of immunity for the suffering of others, may still be present.},
keywords = {afgoderij, bevrijdingstheologie, Christelijk sociaal denken, communisme, ideologie, Marxisme, moderniteit, nationaal socialisme, secularisatie},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}