Why the Church? - Self-Optimization Or Community of Faith

"Originally published in German in 2022 under the title Warum Kirche? Selbstoptimierung oder Glaubensgemeinschaft."

List of contents

1. Introduction

2. Why the Church?

3. Problematic Predictions

4. Do We Need Religion?

5. Faith or Self-Optimization?

6. A Christian through War and Revolution

7. Christianity without the Church?

8. Human Dignity

9. Is Human Dignity Still Our Supreme Value?

10. The Church as Moral Agency?

11. The Church's Global Responsibility and Particular Obligations

About the author

Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin. For more than twenty years he was a Visiting Professor of Sociology and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books including The Power of the Sacred (2021) and Faith as an Option: Possible Futures for Christianity (Stanford, 2014).

Product details

• Authors: Hans Joas
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781503638037
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3803-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works