1. Jürgen Habermas and Karl Barth Christian Mission and Global Civil Society

3. Religion today…

5. Social solidarity Religion today… Civic engagement

6. “the cure for religious violence may ultimately lie in a renewed appreciation for religion itself.” Juergensmeyer, Religion and Global Civil Society, 3

7. Jürgen Habermas and Karl Barth Christian Mission and Global Civil Society 1. Solidarity and the Public Sphere 2. Religion and the Public Sphere 3. Barth’s Political Theology? 4. Analogical Politics 5. Christian Mission Today By setting Barth and Habermas in conversation we begin to understand key insights for Christians living out their mission in the political sphere today.

9. Culture Consuming Private Individuals Sphere of Public Authority (State) Solidarity Groups (Feminists) Mass Vote Mass Media Solidarity Groups (Ethnicities) Solidarity Groups (Business People) Solidarity Groups (Religious Traditions) Critically Debating Public Sphere Private Realm Legitimate Mitigated Media Solidarity Groups (Religious Traditions) Universal Communicative Procedures Methodical Atheism

11. Methodical Transcendence from Within Shared Language Surplus? “We are exposed to the movement of a transcendence from within… But this does not enable us to ascertain the countermovement of a compensating transcendence from beyond.” (Habermas, 238) Dialoguing with Theologians Atheism 2. Religion and the Public Sphere

13. “Religious Tolerance – The Pacemaker for Cultural Rights” Violent Religious Communities? Internalization of Universalism of the State 2. Religion and the Public Sphere

14. Secularism depends upon religious Christian discourse. Yeah, but religious discourse always has to be translated into irreligious public language. Religious membership differentiates itself from the “role of societal citizen,” so “universalist order of law and the egalitarian morality of society must connect from within the congregational ethos in such a way that one emerges consistently from the other.” - Habermas, 347

15. 2. Religion and the Public Sphere Coincidence of Universals? Call to Self-Reflection for Religious Communities

18. 3. Barth’s Political Theology? Eschatological Cathedral? Marquardt, Biggar, Webster, Gorringe

20. 3. Barth’s Political Theology? “God becomes man, man becomes God.” Concrete Humanity in Jesus Feuerbach’s Critique

22. 3. Barth’s Political Theology? Christological Priority Humanity in General “God acts as Jesus acts.” CDII.2, 62 Analogia Christi

24. Civil Community Christian Community God’s Kingdom Transcendence for this World Better Politic Critical Solidarity Aporetic Community God at work Interim Reign 4. Civil and Christian Community

26. Christ’s Kingdom as the Analogue to Human Politics God’s anger and mercy – (Barth, 41) Disciples of Christ… do not rule: they serve.” (Barth, 40)

28. Jürgen Habermas and Christian Mission and Global Civil Society Social Solidarity and Civic Engagement Aporetic Practices of Hope Karl Barth

29. Jürgen Habermas and Karl Barth Christian Mission and Global Civil Society Paper available for download @ www.theos- logos.com/BarthandHabermas.pdf