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    Published : 2025-09-29
    Vol. 72 No. 1 (2025)

    Church Chances in the Face of a Crisis According to Michael N. Ebertz

    Marek Jagodziński

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6957-1034

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2025.5

    Abstract

    The Church can be seen as a social system that must protect its resources, define and provide adequate orientation, maintain unity, commitment and cooperation, and provide members with internal and external acceptance. Such a point of view shows that the Church is really in crisis. The reaction to this may be attempts of institutional stabilization, fundamentalism, attempts of pragmatic self-regulation , creating an elite Church or finally option of learning in the service for contemporary man. It is especially about undertaking the effort to arrange a relationship with society, observing the standards and the involvement of lay faithful. In view of the social erosion of the Church, there is a need to take appropriate actions and to use the existing development potential. In particular, a new strategy for pastoral attraction and regaining the eschatological potential of the Church is needed. You can still intervene and correct what has been neglected in relation to changing forms of social life, look for a new model of presence in society and use the existing potential of social legitimacy and mobilization in pluralistic society. Sociology is not able to provide certain therapeutic prescriptions, but it can formulate recommendations. Therefore, it proposes a development strategy that prefers communication, searching for new opportunities and conducting a constructive dialogue with the modern world, without imitating it or uncritically adapting to its requirements and expectations.

    Keywords:

    crisis, social erosion, types of reactions, potential of possibilities, perspectives



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    Roczniki Teologiczne · ISSN 2353-7272 | eISSN 2543-5973 · DOI: 10.18290/rt
    © Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II

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