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What are contemporary theology's challenges? What are its fruitful approaches? Who are its promising contributors? The contributions to this collection of essays try to find answers to these questions by making references to the Dutch Dominican scholar Edward Schillebeeckx, using his theology as a starting point for an up-to-date investigation and discussion. The theological work of Edward Schillebeeckx marks the transition from a pre-modern to a modern approach to Christian faith, Church, and theology. Already more than two generations of theologians have been trained in dialogue with his thought. Contemporary theology testifies, often implicitly, to the enduring relevance of many of Schillebeeckx's insights, while in other instances it pushes his thinking to its limits in order to deal with the current challenges for faith and society.

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Author:   Dr Lieven Boeve (KU Leuven, Belgium) ,  Frederiek Depoortere ,  Dr Stephan van Erp (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Edition:   NIPPOD
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780567142016

ISBN 10:   0567142019
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   24 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

List of Contents In Memoriam Edward Schillebeeckx, OP (1914-2009) Prof. dr. Lieven Boeve, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Prof. dr. Ben Vedder, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Letter from Edward Schillebeeckx to the Participants in the Symposium ‘Theology for the 21st Century: The Enduring Relevance of Edward Schillebeeckx for Contemporary Theology' (Leuven - December 3-6, 2008) Preface Frederiek Depoortere List of Contributors INTRODUCTION The Enduring Significance and Relevance of Edward Schillebeeckx: Introducing the State of the Question in Medias Res, Lieven Boeve PART I ‘God Is New Each Moment': The Question of God in Modernity God, the Luxury of Our Lives: Schillebeeckx and the Argument, Anthony J. Godzieba Taking Atheism Seriously: A Challenge for Theology in the 21st Century, Frederiek Depoortere PART II ‘Everything Is Politics But Politics is Not Everything': The Social Role of Theology When Everything becomes Political: Reading Schillebeeckx on Faith and Politics in the Contemporary United States, Vincent J. Miller New Orientations of the Political: On the Contemporary Challenge of Political Theology,Jürgen Manemann PART III ‘God Is Bigger Than All Religions Put Together': The Dialogue Between the Religions God Before Us, God Among Us: Interreligious Dialogue from an Intercultural Feminist Perspective, Gemma Tulud Cruz Which Christological Tools for the Interreligious Dialogue?, Jean-Louis Souletie PART IV ‘Deus humanissimus': Suffering and Experiences of Negative Contrast Suffering, Resistance, and Hope: Women's Experience of Negative Contrast and Christology, Kathleen McManus, OP The Threatened Humanum as Imago Dei: Anthropology and Christian Ethics, Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP ‘Dark Light': Wrestling with the Angel at the Edge of History, Elizabeth Kennedy Tillar PART V ‘It Began With an Experience': Church and Tradition in an Age of Globalization and Liquidization Pushed to a Precarious Flexibility: Where to Go if Tradition Has No Answer and Apocalypse Is No Alternative, Hans-Joachim Sander History and Tradition: Catholicism and the Challenge of Globalized Modernity, Oliver Davies The Church with a Human Face, Marc Dumas PART VI Philosophy and Theology Implicit Faith: Philosophical Theology after Schillebeeckx, Stephan van Erp Conversation, Identity and Truth, Benoît Bourgine PART VII Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Past and Future of Schillebeeckx's Theological Project Retrieving God's Contemporary Presence: The Future of Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of Culture, Erik Borgman Schillebeeckx and Theology in the Twenty-First Century, Robert J. Schreiter Theology for the 21st Century: A Commentary on the Symposium, Kathleen Dolphin, PBVM Bibliography Index

Reviews

This volume not only introduces Schillebeeckx's theology, one of the leading theologians of the twentieth century, but it also explores its potential for the twentieth first century. The range of challenges and the high quality of the essays by internationally known scholars makes this volume indispensible for anyone interested in the challenges facing theology today. Its value goes far beyond the interpretation of Schillebeeckx to a serious engagement with the problems and issues he faced and with those that we need to face today. -- Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, USA. This volume invites the reader to experience how exciting theology can be when it engages with the really pressing questions of our time. Inspired and encouraged by the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx, prominent European and North American scholars explore the mutually critical encounter between Christian faith and our globalizing world. In this dynamic conversation on the demands of a liberating praxis 'God is new each moment. -- Werner G. Jeanrond, Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow, UK. [This] book is a very valuble overview of recent Schillebeeckx research. -- Bijdragen, International Journal in Philosophy and Theology

Author Information

Lieven Boeve is professor of fundamental theology at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), where he currently also serves as Dean of the Faculty and as the co-ordinator of the Research Group Theology in a Postmodern Context. His research concerns theological epistemology, philosophical theology, truth in faith and theology, tradition development and hermeneutics. He is the author of Interrupting Tradition. An Essay on Christian Faith in a Postmodern Context (2003) and God Interrupts History. Theology in a Time of Upheaval (2007). He has co-edited various volumes, of which the most recent are: Augustine and Postmodern Thought: A New Alliance against Modernity? (2009) and Orthodoxy: Process and Product (2009). From 2005 till 2009 he served as president of the European Society for Catholic Theology. Dr Frederiek Depoortere is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven (Belgium) and a member of the research group 'Theology in a Postmodern Context'.

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