Church Communities Today: Three Alternative Visions

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of Figures 9
4. Acknowledgements 11
5. Introduction to the Book 13
6. Part I A Situated Pastoral Theology
7. Portraits and Handbooks 27
8. Karl Rahner and the Deformed Steel Beam at Herder 33
9. Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Vanderbilt's Tumbleweed 45
10. Current Projects on Embodied, Localised Thing-Theology 55
11. Part II The Electric Laboratory
12. An Introduction to a Theology of Material and Space 65
13. Universal Service: The Cathedral of Bell 71
14. Failure and the Power of Wonder 83
15. The Utopian Potential of the Material 89
16. A Networked Model of the World 99
17. A Christian Perspective 103
18. The End of a Totalitarian Vision 113
19. Part III Social Laboratories
20. From Central Planning to a New Sensibility 119
21. New Strategies for Materially Sensitive People 135
22. Examples of a Material-Human-Sensitive Church 147
23. Part IV A Situated Church Community
24. Concrete Communities 161
25. Church Communities Today: Three Alternative Visions 171
26. Church Communities in the Future: Church Without a Home 189
27. Practical Theological Implications Beyond the Concrete 193
28. Conclusion 197
29. Literature 203
30. Unpublished Literature and Websites 217
31. Interviews and Other Material 219