"In the Church there are too many service contracts and not enough commitment. We need a reform of Christianity!"
Dr. Manfred Lütz is a psychiatrist, theologian and writer. From it appeared include "The blocked giant Psycho-Analysis of the Catholic Church" and "God: A brief history of the Greatest". His latest book. "! Astray We keep the wrong people"
"It is church crisis, Christianity crisis, crisis of God, but the wicked world it is not good
The passion of the old struggles long passed. Where Nietzsche nor his "God is dead, we killed him," cried out, where anti-Christian Voltaire still be "Ecrasez l'infame" tossed and Diderot saw rise up against the church the day, "on which the last prince strangled with the entrails of the last priest "would, as there are now clueless atheism, Christianity, criticism and uneducated stereotypical church protest taken hold.
fact, there are almost only atheism in his fundamentalist fanatical variant or as mindless convention. Philosophical dilettantes such as the biologist Richard Dawkins can only "infinite shallowness of the Anglo-Saxon atheism" (Peter Sloterdijk) back to life.
Even with the criticism of Christianity is not far away. Most of what we hear there is based on gross historical ignorance. And the Church is in protest a few recurring empty phrases solidified, whereby the Church worthy opponent can often bring already disconcerted by him innocently asks what it exactly is, against which he rebelling because so brave, if he knew when and why it celibacy were really what is the meaning of Catholic sexual morality, which implies the infallibility of the Pope in practice and why a certain form of democracy in the Church could be a problem.
With these four topics the commonly held church criticism but even most of the end. Amusing, is that all four licensed church protest themes "Catholic" are anti-Protestant church protest is considered taboo. Catholic is evil, is evangelical love. Thus, the time now in Germany since Bismarck. As a reflex in the current debate abuse, celibacy, the Catholic Sexual morality and somehow the Pope as the cause were brought into the conversation, crack some scientists out of patience: You'll likely get pregnant from kissing a pedophile by the celibacy.
And what does it all mean? What does it mean that there are almost no discourse capable atheism, no serious criticism of Christianity, church no real protest? This is an incredible opportunity for Christianity! But why no one notices?
well in any country in the world are the Christian churches institutionalized so effectively as with us. They are the largest employers. There is hardly a church function, for that there are not any competent paid employees. And for children, especially among institutional representatives. The decline in membership, the job cuts, including the loss of power of opinion, that is, from the standpoint of an institution of alarming. And so bring down the statistics and the demo copy some church representatives from year to year deeper into the problem of Trance, a mood in any event, no matter from which it is nigh an act of violence, to proclaim such a thing as "good news".
But the church is, fortunately, no institution primarily of paid employees. Probably the first church service contract of similar epochal significance as die konstantinische Wende. Denn auch hier drängen sich beunruhigende Fragen auf: Kann man gegen Geld christlich handeln? Was bedeutet die Zuständigkeit hauptamtlicher, zumeist bezahlter Christen für all die vielen getauften Christen? Was ist dann eigentlich noch deren "Zuständigkeit"? Dafür hat man im Deutschen den höchst merkwürdigen Ausdruck "Ehrenamt" erfunden. Doch es ist weder eine "Ehre" noch ein "Amt", sondern schlicht die Pflicht jedes getauften Christen, den Glauben zu verkünden, Gottesdienst mitzufeiern und den Schwachen zu helfen. Das nämlich sind theologisch die Wesensvollzüge der Kirche: Martyria (Verkündigung), Leiturgia (Gottesdienst) und Diakonia (karitatives Engagement).
in Germany but we have made the proclamation and the diaconate in the pros, and whether someone "practicing Christian" is to be determined more consistently and, absurdly, by church attendance. But that would be an amputee Christianity, Christianity would be merely as a niche event for slightly obsessive ritual lovers who maintain anti-money people who understand all this, and other people who care about charity.
We need a reform of Christianity in our country in the original sense of the word reform. In the history of the church call for reform has never been the call for cheaper Christianity but after more determination, sincerity and dedication. We have to go back to the sources. "I came not to rule but to serve," said Jesus. All paid, all full-time, all "relevant" Christians have their activities in line with the subsidiarity principle understand the Christian social teaching as a service to Christianity all the baptized. You must do everything so that all Christians can confess again, and this must also know their faith again. The high theology must be seen again as more help for the everyday faith, as humble service and not as an elitist intellectual project, the simple faith met with ironic disdain.
Every Christian is "competent" to "account for them (1 Peter 3.15) for the hope that lives in him" to know he needs, why not faith in God is irrational, what the great historical achievements of Christianity are to have invented such compassion for the weak, the Gentiles knew not driven as a religion of salvation, the liberation from slavery and oppression and brought by many good Christians more light into the world to have. Catholics need to explain what the great thing is on celibacy, how much the sexual mores of an appreciation of sexuality and Human dignity is required, why the distinction between state and church rule constitutes a major achievement of the West was and how the infallibility of the Pope receives in reality the diversity of voices in the church, because no one can explain sectarian his own view as absolute.
As for the service, must be clear that Christianity is not eternal Sunday school, but something adult, not harmless, but a matter of life and death. People want as God, they want to meet the saints, not just the original pastor. And pray that people want. Than in a village in the Rhineland to an 'Evening of Light the music and prayer "has been invited, were hundreds, twice as many as Sunday Mass, and this is, strictly speaking, not so surprisingly, the people do terrible things.. One child dies, someone receives a cancer diagnosis, a marriage breaks up where then concealed with all the trouble?
Finally, it must be clear that it was not paid charity is. Every Christian is obliged to visit the lonely, to assist the dying and to help people in need, and every Christian community must take care of it. One such community is suddenly alive again. Of course it can actually even get a few paid professionals to help. But the diaconate itself makes no social welfare work, Caritas Caritas not themselves, social welfare and charity does have the mission with great professionalism and therefore entitled to a fee to help us all to live our Christianity of Christian and charitable. The Good Samaritan had been recruited in Caritas and Diakonia in Germany never, because he was not baptized and had no professional training. He was not paid, it was not full time, he was not responsible. But the crucial question of how to get to heaven, Jesus says: so Is this like Samaritans because "
Source: Manfred Lütz in" chrismon 11/2010 "
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