Zur Materialität im Kirchenraum

Annäherungen an eine Praktische Theologie der Dinge

Antje Roggenkamp

 

The considerations deal with artefacts, objects and items and ask about the significance that their interaction in the church space can have for a practical theology of things. Practical theology is initially intended to be open to the perception of objects and artefacts and their self-activity, without this necessarily having to take on active forms (Hans-Peter Hahn). In the background is the consideration of ascribing meaning to things in relationships between people and artefacts in order to no longer leave them in a subject-object opposition (Bruno Latour). The new sensitivity of practical theology, but also religious studies, for things, objects, items and artefacts has so far focused on the religious positioning of things (Roth & Gilly), individual recurring cults (Anne Koch) and liturgical acts (Torsten Cress), but not on the significance of things in the everyday life of the church interior. A theology of materiality draws on polyvalent attributions and expanded forms of use.