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Becoming Someone Else's Guest

Margit Eckholt Becoming Someone Else's Guest Analysis of Faith with Michel de Certeau in Times of Intercultural and Interreligious Encounters The French Jesuit Michel de Certeau (1925–1984) crossed the borders between disciplines – historical and cultural studies, philosophy and religious studies –...

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The Church Listens to the People

Paul M. Zulehner The Church Listens to the People A Pastoral Theology from Below Case studies are listening to people in a scientifically organised way. This book includes five such case studies, which could be helpful in the day-to-day operations of the Church: on the satisfaction with Pope...

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Against False Alternatives

Jürgen Werbick Against False Alternatives Why Nothing Is Alien to the Christian Faith Polarisations increasingly dominate social, church-related and theological discourses. They work with exclusionary alternatives to make the options of the "other" side impossible and to mobilise decisiveness:...

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Life After Death

Hubert Philipp Weber Life After Death Understanding Christian Hope Part of the Christian hope is that life is not lost with physical death but remains – renewed and reconciled with all brokenness. When people have an experience of death, it makes them aware that their own life is heading for death....

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Theology in the Times of the Corona Pandemic

Magnus Striet Theology in the Times of the Corona Pandemic An Essay The poet Giovanni Boccaccio spoke of heaven's cruelty after a plague outbreak in Florence had devastating consequences in 1378. He could no longer believe in the idea of a punishing God. Currently, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is keeping...

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Resurrection?

Hans Kessler Ressurection? The Way of Jesus, the Cross and Faith in Easter Resurrection is a foreign word for many people. The Biblical Easter texts sound too much like fairy tales when they are taken literally. But what kind of texts are these and what are they about? What are their claims about...

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"We All Do Better When We All Do Better"

Kurt Remele "We All Do Better When We All Do Better" The Ethical Rediscovery of the Common Good The common good means that the individual's well-being and the condition of the communities and societies are interrelated. If my own life is to succeed, I depend on other people, on non-human living...

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Moved by the Spirit

Margit Eckholt Moved by the Spirit Walking Synodal Paths in the Footsteps of Jesus: Scripture Meditations The synodal path of the German local Church is a spiritual process that seeks to open up new perspectives with regard to power and participation in the Church, the cooperation of laity and...

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Renewal from the Source

Walter Cardinal Kasper Renewal from the Source Theology - Christology - Eucharist According to Walter Cardinal Kasper, a response to the crisis of tradition in church Christianity requires more and different approaches than just superficial modernisations. It presents the basic question of how the...

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Being Vulnerable

Hildegund Keul Being Vulnerable Vulnerability and the Preciousness of Life Being vulnerable is really not always a pleasant state. At the same time, vulnerability offers people the opportunity to be approachable and empathetic, to give others their attention and to act in solidarity. Humanity lives...