Table of Contents for Why the Church?

Why the Church?
Self-Optimization or Community of Faith
Hans Joas

1.Introduction

2.Why the Church?

3.Problematic Predictions

4.Do We Need Religion?

5.Faith or Self-Optimization?

6.A Christian through War and Revolution

7.Christianity without the Church?

8.Human Dignity

9.Is Human Dignity Still Our Supreme Value?

10.The Church as Moral Agency?

11.The Church's Global Responsibility and Particular Obligations

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