This contribution asks for the general direction of ecclesiastical developments against the background of the ongoing crisis of the Catholic Church. The answer is not simple but multifaceted, as, ideally, there are five different options for future church development: The option of institutional stabilization, the fundamentalist option, the option of pragmatic self-regulation, the option of elitist minorisation and the option of re-learning. Although this last option was favored by the Vatican Council and is supported by sociologists of religion - from Helmut Schelsky to Leo Laeyendecker -, for a whole complex of reasons it obviously does not come to bear at the moment.the federal level without affecting the autonomy of local parishes. In order to illustrate this observation, the article features some objectives and present reform measures of the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches.ion. deal with the relation of health and healing.mon to make this ambience of autobiographic accounting explicit and offer Christian interpretations pertaining to it.n John Williamson Nevin (1803-86) und Philip Schaff (1819-93) entfachte Debatte um das Selbstverständnis der deutsch-reformierten Kirche.
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Kirchenkurs und Kirchenreform in der Katholischen Kirche / Michael N. Ebertz, 2013. - S.144-151
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