Für das Leben der Welt

'Theology is important because it deals with what is most important for human life'. I am not a theologian, maybe not even a real Christian. But already when I read the introduction to this book, the hairs on the back of my neck literally stood up: Finally! Finally, theology is taking courage again and dealing directly and fearlessly with what is really important in our lives. We don't find it in academic theology, not in the rest of academia, and not in a culture that swings back and forth between everyday coping desperation mode and what Nietzsche calls the search for miserable comfort. Whatever the right answers may be: This book asks what we as human beings can be, what we should strive for, what we can hope for and what we want to dream about. And that is what matters! Hartmut Rosa Institute for Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.