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As a result of the publication of "Jesus. An Experiment in
Christology" (volume 6) and "Christ. The Christian Experience in
the Modern World "(volume 7), Schillebeeckx was accused of denying
the divinity of Jesus and the resurrection as objective reality. In
this 'interim report' he responds to these criticisms.
Schillebeeckx argues that the interpretation of his publications
depends to a large extent on what the reader takes as a starting
point. This book, therefore, is about presuppositions and methods
of interpretation. Schillebeeckx begins by looking once again at
the nature of revelation, at the ways in which religious faith is
experienced and expressed in the modern world, and at sources of
authority. He then discusses specific criticisms. Can he be called
a neo-liberal? Does he devalue the church's tradition? Is his
Christology inadequate? What does he really believe concerning the
resurrection? Then, towards the end, in some poetically powerful
passages, he turns once again to the nature of the Kingdom of God,
creation and salvation.
Holy Rosary has been treasured in the Catholic Church for many
centuries. It is a summary of Christian faith in language and
prayers inspired by the Bible. This pamphlet gives the background,
meaning, and technique of this prayer.
Is it possible to capture, in brief, the fundamental changes that
affected the role of religion within modern Western society? For a
long time, many scholars would have answered that question in the
positive; most of them would certainly have counted increasingly
tolerant attitudes towards forms of religion that were once been
regarded as unacceptable, as being one of those central features.
In the light of the current revision of the established 'truths'
concerning modern religion, it is now possible to once again
address the wide-spread belief that modernity meant the gradual
victory of more 'liberal' religious attitudes without running the
risk of being accused of only dealing with commonplaces. Was
modernity only dominated by growing tolerance? And if so, what were
the forces that prompted that development? What was the nature of
that sentiment? This book approaches these questions by studying
the popular Protestant British view of John Henry Newman between
the time of his secession 1845 and his death in 1890. It draws on a
wide range of sources with a particular focus on the newspaper and
periodical press. It argues that changes in popular attitudes were
integral parts of the internecine religious disputes of, above all,
the 1850s and 1860s. A tolerant discourse came henceforth to live
side by side with traditional Protestant rhetoric. Nevertheless,
and in spite of expanding horizons, accepting attitudes became an
effective vehicle for expressing a sense of Protestant superiority.
"The Understanding of Faith" (1974) is certainly Schillebeeckx's
most incisive English publication on theological hermeneutics. It
contains his principal ideas on this subject, in which he
progressively evolved the hermeneutic thinking that he was to apply
in due course in his famous Jesus books. The book centres on two
issues: how should the Christian message of God's kingdom be read
in our day and age, and can a present-day interpretation of that
message still be considered Christian? In short, what are the
possibilities and limits of the understanding of faith in our
modern age? Of course, hermeneutics as such was not new to
Christian theology. Exegetes had been exploring interpretive
processes for some time. Schillebeeckx's innovation was to extend
hermeneutic thinking to the possibilities and limits of
interpreting the entire Christian tradition, including its
definition in systematic theology. Inspired by the early Jurgen
Habermas's 'new critical theory', Schillebeeckx also expands
criticism of ideology in various directions. This was to influence
generations of theologians after him, right up the present day.
In With Eyes and Ears Open: The Role of Visitors in the Society of
Jesus, twelve historians examine important visitations in the
history of the Society. After a thorough investigation of the
nature and role of the "visitor" in Jesuit rules and regulations,
ten visitations of missions and provinces-from Peru in the
sixteenth century, to Ireland in the seventeenth, to the Zambesi
mission and Australia in the twentieth-are considered. Visitors,
appointed by the superior general in Rome, surveyed the situation
for fidelity to the Jesuit way of life, resolved any problems, and
recommended future paths, often to the disapproval of Jesuit hosts.
One contribution concerns the canonical visitation of the
non-Jesuit Francis Saldanha da Gama in 1758, which resulted in the
expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal in 1759.
This is a unique selection of Edward Schillebeeckx' collection,
translated into English here for the first time. This is a
collection of essays from one of the most eminent Catholic
theologians of the late 20th century. Edward Schillebeeckx
Collected Works bring together the most important and influential
works of the Dutch Dominican and theologian Edward Schillebeeckx
(1914-2009) in a reliable edition. All translations have been
carefully checked or revised, some texts are presented in English
for the first time. The page numbers of earlier editions are
included. Each volume carries a foreword by an internationally
renowned Schillebeeckx expert. This edition makes Schillebeeckx
available for a new generation of scholars and students.
Twenty-nine years old, newly married, and fresh from the Society of
Jesus, where he had spent ten years as a novice and scholastic, Bob
Kaiser was picked for one of the most exciting jobs in journalism
of his era: Time's reporter at the Second Vatican Council. In the
words of Michael Novak: "No reporter knew more about the Council;
had talked with more of the personalities, prominent or minor; had
more sources of information to tap. Sunday evening dinner parties
at his apartment became a rendezvous of stimulating and informed
persons. In the English-speaking world, at least, perhaps no source
was to have quite the catalytic effect as Time on opinion outside
the Council and even to an extent within it." Much of inner story
of the Council-its personalities, machinations, maneuverings
between progressive forces and the old guard-was told in Bob
Kaiser's bestseller of the early sixties Pope, Council, and World.
This is a different story, one so raw and personal that it could
only be told some forty years later in a very different church and
by a much matured Bob Kaiser. The heart of the story is how Bob's
wife was seduced by his friend, the Jesuit priest Malachy Martin,
and how Martin ("a man who could make people laugh in seven
languages)" persuaded Kaiser's other clerical friends (including
notable bishops and prominent theologians) to send him to a
sanitorium. The story is at once hilarious (Martin was one of the
great clerical con men of all time) and sobering. The "clerical
error"--the refusal to see what Martin was up to--was as much
Kaiser's as that of his older clerical friends who defended their
fellow priest simply because he was a member of the club. Their
naivete and their blindness only mirrors the church's inability to
deal realistically with any issue touched by sex: birth control,
remarriage after divorce, priestly celibacy, clerical child abuse,
or the ordination of women. Bob Kaiser did eventually grow up. He
knows the official church has a long way to go.
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