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Reforming the Church
Some are calling the synod on synodality “the greatest consultation effort in human history” and for good reason. It is no small task to listen to the world’s 1.36 billion Catholics, especially when many Catholics have felt marginalized or unwelcome. Taking a cue from this ongoing synodal process, the experts gathered for Reforming the Church: Global Perspectives place the broader issues relating to church reform in their historical context, while exploring themes that have ongoing relevance to the universal church. Topics include ecclesial transfiguration and the episcopacy, clerical sex abuse, globalization of the church, and the theology of synodality. A number of chapters address i...
Can the West Be Converted?
Rather than reconsidering contemporary culture in light of secularization, much of the western church operates with a degree of nostalgia. She has yet to fully embrace prospective, innovative models for what form her task might take in some of Christianity’s historic heartlands. Amidst rapidly declining church membership, contextualizing the Gospel for the contemporary West is an urgent task for churches and Christians living in this context. This book seeks an interdisciplinary, international, and ecumenical response to this challenge, uniting historical, sociological, theological, and missiological perspectives. Benefiting from recent studies in sociology of religion, Dr. Gantenbein offe...
Theology of the Parish, A
A Theology of the Parish answers skepticism about the pastoral role of theology by presenting a case for “Theology of the People” as an important tool for empowering whole communities at the local level of the Church.
Religiöse Wellness
Den inneren Seelenfrieden zu finden ist ein Grundbedürfnis jedes Menschen. Die Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens, dem eigenen Seelenheil, findet täglich statt. Bewusst oder unbewusst: Wir arbeiten beständig daran, den für uns 'richtigen Weg' zu finden. Die heutige Informationsgesellschaft bietet eine Vielzahl von Möglichkeiten, dem Bedürfnis der Sinnfindung nachzukommen. Auffallend ist, dass trotz moderner Weltanschauungen traditionelle Wertvorstellungen, wie sie insbesondere durch religiöse Rituale vermittelt werden, ihre Kraft nicht eingebüßt haben. Sie treten nur anders in Erscheinung, denn sie finden, gemäß den heute zur Verfügung stehenden Kommunikationsformen, transformiert Au...
The Reality of the Social World
This book offers a collection of contributions on medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social ontology. Since the 1990s, social ontology has emerged as a vibrant research area in contemporary analytical philosophy. Questions concerning the nature and properties of social groups, institutions, facts, and objects like money and marriage, have been thoroughly discussed. However, the historical perspective has been largely neglected. One of the central aims of this volume is to show that relevant views on social ontology can be found in medieval and early modern philosophy (ca. 1200-1700 C.E.), when, for example, the ontological status of money, law, and the sacraments was ho...
Navigating a Travelling Organization
This book dives deep into the "Three Pillar Model" (3-P-Model) applied by the authors for organizations. These pillars are: Sustainable Purpose, Traveling Organization, and Connected Resources. The authors specifically concentrate on the pillar Traveling Organization and help in understanding the concept, its design, and navigation in practice. The expert contributors also show the relevance of the 3-P-Model in diverse areas – from profit and public organizations to the catholic church and cultural work. The navigation is aligned with the pillar Sustainable Purpose and connects professional topics, organizations, and people as three core resources. Organizational scientists, business strategists, and executive MBA students will particularly benefit from this book.
Parallelwelten
Zur Grundstruktur von Religion gehort die Behauptung, dass es neben der irdischen eine weitere & hohere, wirklichere, vergangene, kommende & Welt gibt, wie dies etwa in der christlichen Tradition mit der Zweiheit von "Himmel (bzw. Holle) und Erde" formuliert wird. Die andere Wirklichkeit weist Analogien zur hiesigen auf, bleibt jedoch deutlich von ihr unterscheidbar und ragt nur an bestimmten Stellen in diese hinein und bietet Anlasse, zwischen den Welten zu wechseln. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes zeigen die philosophischen und kosmologischen Hintergrunde fur eine Rede von mehreren Welten auf, stellen die religiose und christliche Rede von einer Uberwelt dar und untersuchen zeitgenossische Beispiele fur quasireligiose Gegenwelten.
Synodality in Europe – Theological Reflections on the Church on Synodal Paths in Europe
The publication of the ESCT (European Society for Catholic Theology) with the title „Synodality in Europe“ reflects on the synodal process in Europe and challenges of theological work in view of the learning process to become a „synodal church“. The different articles lay theological foundations of synodality, they present regional and world church perspectives, they show tensions and processes of pluralisation which are understood as a „laboratory“ of synodality related to the liberating and healing Gospel of Jesus Christ. Most of the authors are members of different sections of ESCT (in Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain). Integrated are also a protestant and two world-church contributions.
Migration as a Sign of the Times
Migrations are contested sites of identity negotiations: they are not simply a process of border crossings but more so of border shiftings. Rather than allowing migrants to swiftly move across stable borders from one clearly defined identity to another, migrations question and renegotiate these very identities. Migrations undermine and re-establish borders along which the identity of migrants (and also that of the supposedly settled population) are constituted, and, as a discourse, migrations serve as a contested site of negotiating identities. Migrations reveal the negotiable character of identities - and representations of migration are themselves a hotspot in contemporary identity constru...
Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities
The chapters in this volume clarify the notion of political identity by focusing on the metaphysics of polities. By analysing the notion of political identity, they provide the conceptual resources for a deeper understanding of the theoretical and practical debates on populism, the crisis of sovereignty, the feasibility of a world government, and ethical, religious, and cultural pluralism. What is a political community? Any answer to this question lies at the intersection between three fields: metaphysics, philosophy of action, and political philosophy. The question concerns how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, ...
