CHURCH OR NOTHING?

The concept of 'salvation', once considered a rare commodity and whose exclusive granting was reserved for a single category of people, religious leaders, to whom consumers of goods of salvation, lay people, owe everything, is defined differently in this book. The author presents a fascinating argument that seeks to strike a balance between the maxim of firmness established by those who claimed to hold a monopoly on the granting of sacramental goods, which maintains that there is no salvation outside the Church, 'Extra ecclesiam nulla salus', and a conception that maintains that even outside this institution, because it is empty of all substance, salvation is also possible: 'the individual search for salvation'.The author invites his readers to think differently about the concept of 'salvation' in order to free themselves from the yoke of servitude under which lay people are placed through intimidating sermons.

Autorentext

David Kalala Banze, a doctoral researcher in English Language and Civilisation at the University of Lubumbashi, is also an independent researcher on matters relating to the religiosity of revivalist churches.

Klappentext

The concept of 'salvation', once considered a rare commodity and whose exclusive granting was reserved for a single category of people, religious leaders, to whom consumers of goods of salvation, lay people, owe everything, is defined differently in this book. The author presents a fascinating argument that seeks to strike a balance between the maxim of firmness established by those who claimed to hold a monopoly on the granting of sacramental goods, which maintains that there is no salvation outside the Church, 'Extra ecclesiam nulla salus', and a conception that maintains that even outside this institution, because it is empty of all substance, salvation is also possible: 'the individual search for salvation'.The author invites his readers to think differently about the concept of 'salvation' in order to free themselves from the yoke of servitude under which lay people are placed through intimidating sermons.