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Elasticized Ecclesiology

Ulrich Schmiedel
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      This study confronts the current crisis of churches. In critical and creative conversation with the German theologian Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923), Ulrich Schmiedel argues that churches need to be “elasticized” in order to engage the “other.” Examining contested concepts of religiosity, community, and identity, Schmiedel explores how the closure of church against the sociological “other” corresponds to the closure of church against the theological “other.” Taking trust as a central category, he advocates for a turn in the interpretation of Christianity—from “propositional possession” to “performative project,” so that the identity of Christianity is “done” rather than “described.” Through explorations of classical and contemporary scholarship in philosophy, sociology, and theology, Schmiedel retrieves Troeltsch’s interdisciplinary thinking for use in relation to the controversies that encircle the construction of community today. The study opens up innovative and instructive approaches to the investigation of the practices of Christianity, past and present. Eventually, church emerges as a “work in movement,” continually constituted through encounters with the sociological and the theological “other.” 
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Ulrich Schmiedel EAN: 9783319821962 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-07-12 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Social, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sociology, Psychology, Social and political philosophy, Religion: general, Philosophy of religion, Christianity, Theology

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      Ulrich Schmiedel received his DPhil from the University of Oxford, UK. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in systematic theology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. His research, located at the intersection of theology, sociology, and philosophy, concentrates on the critical purport and creative potential of contemporary Christianity. He has published in a number of international journals. Recently, he co-edited Dynamics of Difference: Christianity and Alterity. 
      This study confronts the current crisis of churches. In critical and creative conversation with the German theologian Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923), Ulrich Schmiedel argues that churches need to be “elasticized” in order to engage the “other.” Examining contested concepts of religiosity, community, and identity, Schmiedel explores how the closure of church against the sociological “other” corresponds to the closure of church against the theological “other.” Taking trust as a central category, he advocates for a turn in the interpretation of Christianity—from “propositional possession” to “performative project,” so that the identity of Christianity is “done” rather than “described.” Through explorations of classical and contemporary scholarship in philosophy, sociology, and theology, Schmiedel retrieves Troeltsch’s interdisciplinary thinking for use in relation to the controversies that encircle the construction of community today. The study opens up innovative and instructive approaches to the investigation of the practices of Christianity, past and present. Eventually, church emerges as a “work in movement,” continually constituted through encounters with the sociological and the theological “other.” 
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Ulrich Schmiedel EAN: 9783319821962 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-07-12 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Social, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sociology, Psychology, Social and political philosophy, Religion: general, Philosophy of religion, Christianity, Theology

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      Ulrich Schmiedel received his DPhil from the University of Oxford, UK. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in systematic theology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. His research, located at the intersection of theology, sociology, and philosophy, concentrates on the critical purport and creative potential of contemporary Christianity. He has published in a number of international journals. Recently, he co-edited Dynamics of Difference: Christianity and Alterity. 

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