Religious Vulgarity

By James Hall McIlvaine

When worship is cheapened into habit and slogans, both church and street are coarsened. In Religious Vulgarity, James Hall McIlvaine offers a classic Christian essay that is at once religious cultural critique and piercing Christian social commentary, written from within a Western Protestant context yet uncomfortably relevant to faith and modern society today. These pages are quietly incendiary. McIlvaine explores the gap between pious language and actual conduct, showing how religious talk can erode reverence, confuse conscience and blunt a community's sense of right and wrong in religion and everyday morality. The result is a sober call to recover seriousness, honesty and responsibility in public and private devotion, firmly against superficial religion yet deeply concerned for the life of the church. As a work of historical Christian thought, Religious Vulgarity stands among religion and culture classics that refuse to flatter their audience. Its clear, vigorous prose and searching moral imagination speak to C. S. Lewis readers and to all who care about the fraught meeting of faith and modern society. For serious Christian readers and for seminary and clergy, it serves as a searching mirror for personal piety, public witness and the spiritual condition of contemporary culture. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354446825
• ISBN13: 9789354446825
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"