Christliche Zeitgenossenschaft?

This inaugural lecture adresses the topic of Christian contemporaneity as a core issue of practical theology today. In the light of the antagonisms of late modernity, this contemporaneity faces the risks of Christian discipleship in our times. Reflecting upon this challenge, Catholic practical theol...

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Published inInternational journal of practical theology Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 4 - 25
Main Author Bauer, Christian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin De Gruyter 01.06.2016
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subjects
abduction
Abduktion
Christians
Christliche Zeitgenossenschaft
contemporaneity
discipleship
Discourse analysis
Heterotopien
heterotopies
late modernity
Modernism
Risk assessment
situativity
Situativität
Spätmoderne
Theology
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Summary:This inaugural lecture adresses the topic of Christian contemporaneity as a core issue of practical theology today. In the light of the antagonisms of late modernity, this contemporaneity faces the risks of Christian discipleship in our times. Reflecting upon this challenge, Catholic practical theology transcends its own shape as a premodern theology just for priests and as a modern theology of the church, respectively. It moves towards a late modern theology of human experience as such, marked by the discursive transition from K. Rahner's Handbuch der Pastoraltheologie to H. Haslinger's Handbuch der Praktischen Theologie. Therefore, practical theology has to redefine its own scientific practices of SEEING (heterotopias instead of atopias and utopias, cf. Michel Foucault), JUDGING (abduction instead of deduction and induction, cf. Charles S. Peirce) and ACTING (situative instead of constative and performative speech acts, cf. Jacques Derrida).
ISSN:1430-6921
1612-9768
DOI:10.1515/ijpt-2014-0050