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International Conference Stephanie B. Klein Professor of Pastoral Theology University of Lucerne, Switzerland Overcoming the Discrepancy Between Ecclesial and Domestic Community. Suggestions for a Church Sensitive to Families’ Life and Faith Starting point for the paper is the perception of the plurality of family life in modern society. It provides examples for actual forms of Christian communal living in different countries, sometimes referred to as „domestic churches“. After a short examination of the magisterial and theological teaching on family as based on the sacrament of marriage and a brief analysis of the growing discrepancy between house and church, family and congregation, I will point out the importance of baptism as foundation for a contemporary understanding of domestic churches. The paper ends with some considerations about the position of families within the church: How can the church become sensitive to families’ life and faith, integrate them into the ecclesial communion and treat them as subjects of their faith rather than as objects of pastoral concern? Stephanie Klein is Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Her research fields are theological dimensions of biographical research, qualitative-empirical research methods in practical theology, and theological gender research. Personal website Conference Main Page | Theme | Travel Programme | Call for Papers | Information | |
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