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041			_aENG
082	0	4	_a230 _bSCH
100	1		_aSchmiedel, Ulrich.
245	1	0	_aElasticized Ecclesiology : The Concept of community after ernst troeltsch
250			_a1st ed. 2017.
260			_aCham, Switzerland, _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2017
300			_a312 pages
490	1		_aPathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
505	0		_aIntroduction. Church(es) in Crisis -- Part I. Religiosity -- 1. The Traces of Trust -- 2. The Drive for Difference -- 3. The Togetherness of Trust -- Part II. Community -- 4. The Construction of Community -- 5. The Attack on Alterity -- 6. The Promise of Plurality -- Part III. Identity -- 7. The Trouble with Trust -- 8. The Power of Practice -- 9. The Elasticization of Ecclesiology -- Conclusion. Crisis in Church(es).
520			_aThis 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." .
650		0	_aPolitical philosophy.
650		0	_aPsychology and religion.
650		0	_aReligion and sociology.
650		0	_aReligion-Philosophy.
650		0	_aSocial sciences-Philosophy.
650		0	_aTheology.
650	1	4	_aChristian Theology.
650	2	4	_aPhilosophy of Religion.
650	2	4	_aPolitical Philosophy.
650	2	4	_aReligion and Psychology.
650	2	4	_aSocial Philosophy.
650	2	4	_aSociology of Religion.
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