ABSTRACT
In this final chapter, the authors review to what extent the comparison can help to acquire a better understanding of the contemporary turn to the church. The current turn to the church appears as an Anglophone postliberal theological reaction to a marginalization of the church in the modern world, the structural characteristics of which can be exemplified by three shifts that together form a coherent new paradigm: to put it concisely, a more integralist and more catholic theology that is based upon an epistemology in which church praxis is prioritized. Even as it adopts themes that were already present in the earlier turn to the church, – integralism, inclusive catholicity, and epistemological critique – the contemporary turn introduces novel aspects. There is nothing new in using the image of a monastery to offer a vision of the church as a whole. In fact, monastic life in various forms has become a popular notion in debates on future of the church.
