Concentrated Creation - Creation and Salvation in the Christology of Edward Schillebeeckx

This book widens the understanding of salvation from a narrow focus on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to one which is inseparable from creation theology. In this analysis of the Thomist and Irenaean sources of Edward Schillebeeckx''s creation faith, God''s absolute saving presence to humanity is found to be intrinsic to his creative action. This becomes most explicit in God''s humanity in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Lewis argues that Jesus is both God''s invitation to humanity and is himself the perfect human response to God. Because of this, Jesus'' followers are called to be engaged in God''s saving action, by working to remove suffering from people and to build a better world in which all may flourish.Schillebeeckx''s theology is sometimes thought to divide into two disconnected halves, a pre- and post-Vatican II version. The way in which Schillebeeckx''s Christological soteriology has developed over his theological career, before and after Vatican II, is here examined using the ales model of continuity and change. This book finds that Schillebeeckx both breaks with the language of Chalcedon while remaining adamantly faithful to the truth which it expresses. The final chapters discover how Schillebeeckx''s ideas and methods are crucially relevant in an analysis of contemporary social suffering in Ciudad-Juarez by Nancy Pineda-Madrid, and in the project of the Catholic Dialogue School in Flanders by Lieven Boeve.>

Product details

• Authors: Rhona Lewis
• Assisted by: Frederiek Depoortere (Editor), Stephan van Erp (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2024
• EAN: 9780567708946
• ISBN: 978-0-567-70894-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Series: T&T Clark Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx; T&t Clark Studies in Edward Sc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Soteriology, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Christology, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology