By Januarius Asongu, PhD
Introduction: When Catholic Unity Becomes a Bottleneck
The Catholic Church is living through an ecclesial migration as consequential as the first movement...
Introduction: From Regional Fires to a Shared Theological Language
The preceding chapters have traced the living edges of contemporary Christianity—not as...
Introduction
An Existential Crisis and a Theological Reckoning
For many in the Global North, the ecological crisis remains largely abstract. It is...
Beyond Demographics: Reverse Mission as a Global Catholic Kairos
One of the most consequential developments in contemporary Christianity is...
Part I: The Margin as the Site of Clarity: Prophecy, Power, and Public Truth
1. Power and the Eclipse of Moral Vision
The center of power is rarely a place...
Memory, Anticipation, and the Theology of Survival
Introduction: The Two Horizons of Christian Existence
Christianity is a religion stretched across...
Part I: Christianity Comes East: History, Antiquity, and Minority Consciousness
1. Reframing the Christian Map
In the Western imagination, Christianity is...
Prologue: A Journal That Became a Theological Institute
There are moments in an intellectual life when formation does not come primarily through...
When “Christian” No Longer Means Catholic
I encountered the question that animates this chapter not in a theological seminar or ecclesial document, but...
Part I: A Word That Struggled to Rise: Translation, Authority, and the Silence That Followed
The revolution of vernacular Scripture did not begin for me...
Introduction: Pentecost, Power, and Discernment in a Polycentric Church
This chapter examines the global eruption of Christianity in the twentieth and...
1. The Unraveling of a Civilization’s Soul: The Augsburg Cathedral as Witness
Stand in the central nave of the Augsburg Cathedral in Bavaria at noon on...
The bells of Augsburg Cathedral rise gently over the city, their sound diffused by centuries of stone, memory, and the soft rain of a Bavarian dawn....
Abstract
The Catholic Church has long maintained a strict separation between sacramental confession and psychological therapy, frequently asserting that...
1. Introduction: The Question That Remains
We have journeyed through a reconstruction of one of theology's most enduring doctrines. Sin reinterpreted as...
1. Introduction: From Healing to Reconstruction of the World
The argument of this book has unfolded in a deliberate progression. We began with the...
1. Introduction: From Individual Healing to Communal Formation
The preceding chapters have established that the human condition is marked by epistemic...
1. Introduction: From Initiation to Formation
The preceding chapter argued that baptism is an epistemic event—the sacramental reconstitution of the human...
1. Introduction: From Epistemic Healing to Sacramental Embodiment
The preceding chapter argued that grace heals the conditions of knowing. If sin is...
1. Introduction: From Diagnosis to Redemption
The preceding chapters have argued that the human condition is marked by epistemic fracture—a structural...