English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

In my paper I follow the thesis that cities are ambivalent and constantly produce ambivalences. Whoever reflects on the church in a changing world of the 21 st  century must also think about these urban ambivalences because the progressive global urbanization with its economic, ecological, political, social and religious consequences is one of the greatest transformation processes of the incipient century and has substantial ramifications for the religions and churches. The first two sections will describe the two main ambivalences of the city in more detail; namely, those of a social and religious nature. The decisive concerns of the Christian religion are concentrated at the interfaces of religious and social ambivalences. The discussion will examine both aspects from a perspective of Practical Theology. The third section will describe how these two ambivalences also have an emphasized significance in the Biblical description of the city. With this background, the last section will deliberate the possible consequences, opportunities and challenges for the Protestant churches in the age of the urbanization. In the analysis, references will be made to the contribution of churches, the more recent urban and religious sociology and Practical Theology. For an analytically sharper look at the present, a relationship will be created between exemplary phenomena and discourses on the urbanization of the Victorian Europe of the 19 th  and early 20 th  century with current developments. At the same time, the paper will connect the specific perspectives of the German-language Practical Theology and the Protestant Church in Germany with the international discourses about the relationship of religion and city in this way.  1    This is the Award-Winning-Paper for the 1.-East-West-Theological-Prize 2015, 4 th  Conference of East-West-Theological Forum: “Crisis and Hope. The Church in a Changing World”, May, 7–9, 2015, Sogang University Seoul. All translations of the German citations are mine.

neue zeitschrift für systematische theologie und religionsphilosophie

“Anticipation of the future” – Faith in urban space. Opportunities and challenges of church-based action in the social and religious ambivalences of the city