God without a people? : the church and the crisis of faith / Bishop Stefan Oster in conversation with Peter Seewald ; translated by Beate Engel-Doyle and Karl F. Hahn ; edited by Michael J. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oster, Stefan, author.

Seewald, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Engel-Doyle, Beate, translator.

Hahn, Karl F., translator.

Standardized Title:

Gott ohne Volk? English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Irreligion--Germany.

Irreligion.

Church and the world.

Catholic Church--Germany.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

xix, 208 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Steubenville, OH : Franciscan University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Is there a connection between the crisis of the Church and the crisis of society? In this wide-ranging conversation, Stefan Oster and Peter Seewald discuss whether and how Catholicism still fits a "civil society" and increasingly globalized world. For the bishop, the future of the Catholic Church is a matter of renewal resulting from preservation. Speaking to the state of the Church in Germany while applying those lessons worldwide, he encourages the faithful to enter into the mystery of faith and personally experience God, prioritizing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As he asks "whether we will let the Gospel take effect once again," Oster stands in the tradition of those reformers who want to draw from the source, who want to set into motion a reform that comes from the Faith itself, contrary to all attempts to adapt and water down the Gospel"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Original German edition: Gott Ohne Volk?, 2016, Droemer Verlag, Munich."

ISBN:

9798893721249

OCLC:

1485169925

Publisher Number:

90101635529