Die große Krise nach dem großen Aufbruch
The Great Crisis After the Great Awakening:
Thoughts on the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Second Vatican Council
Author(s): Peter Claus HartmannSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Theology and Religion, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: II. Vatican Council; Benedict XVI; the Catholic Church in Germany; decline in Sunday mass participation; leaving the Protestant Church; reasons of faith fading
Summary/Abstract: The Catholic Church in Germany has experienced a crisis after the Second Vatican Council. The crisis affected especially the priests, who in a great number left their ministry. Even though the Protestant churches in Germany But lost their believers even more dramatically, one might see the influence of Protestantism in Germany on the Catholic Church. The author of the article shows the negative consequences of the adjustment of the Church to the “spirit of the time”. There are among them: an insufficient religious education; not adequate preparation for the Holy Communion; the emphasis on the social event in the Holy Mass at the cost of its sacred and transcendent dimension. The Sunday obligation is also analyzed. The article presents a point of view of a historian of the church and not of the pastoral theologian. This explains the methodological key used in the article.
Journal: Polonia Sacra
- Issue Year: 20/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 93-109
- Page Count: 17
- Language: German