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The Relationship Hermeneutics in the Context of Pastoral and Catechesis - Locus for Dialogue with Culture in the Missio Ecclesiae
The authority-oriented pastoral/catechetical planning method, which characterizes the African mission transmission, has been problematic as it subtly neglects in its pedagogy the culture and daily life of the subject. Hence, the people operate a Christian/cultural double standard. This book proffers an alternative as the author makes the concept of the relationship hermeneutics model to a creative writing that aims towards an empirical application in the theology of inculturation, which is a subject-oriented and dialogical method that draws its strength from the incarnation prototype.
Hope and Trust in Times of Global Despair and Mistrust
Hope and trust are key problems of the present world and should therefore be at the centre of interest of science and society. Climate change, pandemics, dangerous global and social polarization, people's distrust of politics and institutions, social isolation and the rise of mental problems in developed countries of material prosperity are problems that we will only be able to cope with if we know how to cultivate hope and trust. The authors deal with them from various aspects of the humanities: philosophy, theology, religious studies, intellectual history, cognitive science, psychology and psychotherapy. This gives the book an interdisciplinary character.
From Toleration to Expulsion
On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecsny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. The families involved were descendants of German settlers who began to arrive in what would become the village of Ecsny as early as 1754. They formed an Evangelical Lutheran congregation at the outset that would survive as an underground movement until the Edict of Toleration promulgated by the Emperor Joseph II of Austria in 1782. These two governmental actions tak...
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Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball explores, in an unprecedented manner, a decalogue of wicked problems that confronts humanity: Nuclear proliferation, climate change, pandemics, permanent technological unemployment, Orwellian public and private surveillance, social media that distorts reality, cyberwarfare, the fragmentation of democracies, the inability of nations to cabin private power, the failure of multinational institutions to promote collaboration and the deepening of autocratic rule in countries that have never known anything but extractive institutions. Collectively, or even severally, these wicked problems constitute crises that could end civilisation. Does this list frighten you, or do you blithely a...
Kirche und Junge Erwachsene im Spannungsfeld
In vier Teilen beschäftigt sich Rebecca John Klug mit dem Spannungsverhältnis von Kirche und jungen Erwachsenen. Bei der Klärung des Begriffs junge Erwachsene bemüht sie sich um soziologische Perspektiven, die andere Kriterien als das des Alters anführen. Es folgt die Auseinandersetzung mit der neuen Vielfalt kirchlicher Sozialformen als Ergänzung zum parochialen Gemeindemodell und ausgehend davon die Bestimmung der wesentlichen Merkmale von Kirche bzw. Gemeinde. Im Rahmen einer explorativen Studie fokussiert die Autorin anschließend von jungen Erwachsenen maßgeblich geprägte Ausdrucksweisen des christlichen Glaubens: Inwiefern zeigen sich hier diese Merkmale? Mit der sogenannten "Ekklesiomatrix" präsentiert Klug eine neu entwickelte Kriteriologie, anhand derer sie jedes Merkmal untersucht. Insgesamt macht das Buch deutlich, dass es ein Kirche gestaltendes Potential junger Erwachsener gibt, dem in den vorfindlichen kirchlichen Ausdrucksweisen und Angeboten der entsprechende Gestaltungsraum fehlt.
Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and the Theology of Freedom
This book explores how Judith Butler’s work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia, ‘speaking the truth’, can be made fruitful for a theology of freedom. The volume illustrates the importance of three concepts - freedom, gender (body) and power (critique) - and how this triad provides the foundational categories and structural elements of a theology of freedom. By starting from an analysis of power and the performative potential of gendered embodiment, freedom can be thought of as the basis of creative and critical human action and thereby implemented in theology. The chapters feature several theological-historical case studies that are representative of topics that continue to shape contemporary Catholic norms and thought. In particular, the author reflects on the 13th century with the idea of personal sin and confession, and the 19th century with a gender ideology that has led to the marginalization of difference and dissent. The book shows how Butler and Foucault can provide essential insights for Catholic theology and is valuable reading for scholars of religion, philosophy, and gender and sexuality studies.
South Africa News Update
Consists of reproductions of articles from South African newspapers.
