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Why the Church?
- Self-Optimization or Community of Faith
Af: Hans Joas
Engelsk Paperback
Why the Church?
- Self-Optimization or Community of Faith
Af: Hans Joas
Engelsk Paperback

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Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form "church" in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the church? To what extent is Christian faith in community with other believers an alternative to the mere self-optimization of individuals? In this accessible and questioning new work, Hans Joas traverses theological, church-historical, sociological, and ethical territory in search of a viable conception of the church adequate to contemporary globalized societies. Across eleven essays that draw on work by Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, H. Richard Niebuhr, Leszek Kolakowski and others, Joas reflects on key debates—from the failure of so-called secularization theory to explain religiosity in modern society, to the role of Christianity and the church in relation to rampant nationalism and refugee crises, and to the question of whether or not human dignity ever was, or still is, the highest value in the West. Addressing the sociology of the church as the distinctive communal formation of Christianity for the last two millennia, Joas underscores the need for Christian conceptions of church to balance theological sensibility with concrete sociological grounding. In the process, he considers the relation of a community of faith to contemporary ideas about the optimization of life.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781503640795
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1503640795
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Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2024
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2024
Forfatter(e):
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