Edward Schillebeeckx and Contemporary Theology

This collection of essays by renowned theologians investigates the role of Edward Schillebeeckx' thought for contemporary theology.

List 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

About the author

Lieven Boeve is Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium. As of August 1, 2014, he has been appointed the Director-General of the general office of Catholic Education in Flanders (Fundamental Theology). His research concerns theological epistemology, philosophical theology, truth in faith and theology, tradition development and hermeneutics. From 2005 till 2009 he served as president of the European Society for Catholic Theology.
He is the author of Interrupting Tradition. An Essay on Christian Faith in a Postmodern Context (2003), God Interrupts History. Theology in a Time of Upheaval (2007), Lyotard and Theology (2014) and Theology at the Crossroads of University, Church and Society (2016). He has co-edited various volumes, of which the most recent are: Questioning the Human: Toward a Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century (2014) and The Normativity of History. Theological Truth and Tradition in the Tension between Church History and Systematic Theology (2016).
On September 17, 2015, the European Society for Catholic Theology awarded him the biennial prize for the best theological book of the past two years, for his monograph Lyotard and 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'.Stephan van Erp is Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium

Summary

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.

Foreword

This collection of essays by renowned theologians investigates the role of Edward Schillebeeckx' thought for contemporary theology. 

Additional text

[This] book is a very valuble overview of recent Schillebeeckx research.

Product details

• Authors: Lieven Boeve, Frederiek Depoortere, Frederiek Van Erp Depoortere, Ste van Erp
• Assisted by: Lieven Boeve (Editor), Frederiek Depoortere (Editor), Depoortere Frederiek (Editor), Stephan van Erp (Editor), Stephan van Erp (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2012
• EAN: 9780567142016
• ISBN: 978-0-567-14201-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church