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...percentage is Jewish? Muslim? Barrett believed that the answers to these and similar questions should no longer, in this age of telecommunications, jet travel and computer analysis, remain a matter of faith. Some 14 years ago, huddling with church demographers in Nairobi, Kenya, Barrett launched a project that many churchmen around the world thought would take a virtual miracle to pull off: a nation-by-nation grand survey, complete with encyclopedic tables and computer-compiled statistics, of all the world's religions, minor and major-with no soul left uncounted...
What Barrett and his demographers have discovered is sure to prove invaluable to churchmen and scholars everywhere. But it will also trigger new controversies. For example, Barrett concludes that Brazil, the world's biggest Catholic country, in fact has 11.4 million people on the Catholic rolls who are really Protestants, and 60 million who dabble in the worship of spirits...
That attitude has profoundly irritated Schmidt. "You can't make it so easy for yourselves," he told churchmen during a television dels bate. "You cannot say, when someone else builds up missiles and armaments directed against your town and other towns, 'I will hold back and God will look after...
...highest divorce rate in Western Europe: two for every five marriages (a 1979 total of 163,000 in England and Wales). Even the church hierarchy has been affected. Last month Suffragan Bishop Stephen Verney of Repton was married to a divorcee, setting off an untidy flap among conservative churchmen. At present, many Anglicans are remarried in civil ceremonies and are then blessed privately by a priest. Other couples resort to Methodist marriages, lie to Anglican clergy about previous marriages, or simply live together...
...thread of Burgess's moral dilemma runs through all episodes and discussions in the book. He sometimes treats the issue overtly as when the intellectuals and churchmen who wander through Toomey's narrative subject the doctrine of free will and the homosexual's place in the kingdom of God to ponderous scrutiny. How can homosexuals and a conception of God coexist in harmony? This is the question the many homosexuals Toomey encounters--antagonists and lovers alike--are continually fretting over. And yet, Burgess's most absorbing and ponderous moral statements do not come from such often-babbling and never conclusive...