NEW ECCLESIAL MOVEMENTS

Abstract

Post-modern, post-religious, post-Christian, post-moral, secular, neoliberal,
relativist, anarchist, valueless, value-indifferent,
consumerist… These are some of the words used to describe the
society in which we live today. Many have claimed that the
‘Christian’ West cannot be and will not be any more called Christian
and that all over the world, Christianity, and religion in general have
become outdated, superfluous and irrelevant. The sharp decline in
the past few decades in the number of people regularly attending the
Church or those seeking sacramental ministry or the steady growth in
the number of those who officially leave the Church may seem to
confirm those claims.