Der Riss im Subjekt und die Religion

This book takes on the forcefulness of post-modernist appeals and their rational fantasies of omnipotence. Since the Enlightenment, theology has sought to bring faith and reason together. In doing so, it usually presupposes an image of the human being that understands the subject as a fundamentally rational being. Against the background of post-structural and psychoanalytical insights, the book wants to fundamentally question this understanding of the subject. It argues that the human being stands in an invocation that drives him and just cannot be appropriately penetrated with the means of reason. There is always a rift in the subject, which theology and especially religious education should take into account in their educational and mediation efforts.