KIRCHE IN LIEBESDYNAMIK – INTEGRALES MISSIONSVERSTÄNDNIS... MIT PRAKTISCHEN KONSEQUENZEN. SKIZZE EINER EXISTENZANALYTISCHEN PASTORALTHEOLOGIE

Abstract

The church in a dynamic of love – an integral understanding of mission with practical consequences. A draft of an existential-analytical-pastoral-theology. If we want to discuss an integral term of mission, we will have to talk about existence in a three-fold way: about God’s existence, the church’s existence as well as the human’s existence. Only within the context of these interdependent definitions we will be able to talk about an integral term of mission. To this day, there has not been any theoretical foundation within the theology which would have explained how these three-fold differentiation of existence could be considered in ecclesiastical action plans, especially with regard to the practical consequences evolving from ecclesiology (the church’s existence), the trinity (God’s existence) and anthropology (human’s existence). Subsequently, I venture to conceptualise a new approach for pastoral theology which is aware of the practical consequences of those three interwoven realities of existence as well as the consequences of a sustainable, existential action plan for a church in light of an integral mission term. This newly developed foundation of an ecclesiastical praxis I call ‘Logo-pastoral and existential-analytical-pastoral-theology’ which is inspired by theologians and philosophers such as Paul Michael Zulehner, Karl Rahner, Romano Guardini, Max Scheler and last but not least Pope Francis. This published suggestion is supposed to be understood as a first draft which was presented for the first time on the 28th of May 2018 at the Private Catholic University in Linz (Austria).