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In effect" Revelation and Theology" is Schillebeeckx's general
introduction to theology. Its fifteen chapters were originally
published separately between 1954 and 1962, but the thematic
collection offers a vivid picture of the theological renewal in the
wake of World War II. Schillebeeckx's erudition and broad scholarly
orientation are clearly demonstrated in this volume. Throughout
there are pointers to the (at that time new) ecumenical approach to
Scripture and tradition. The problem concerning the function of the
scholastic tradition is highlighted. Although Schillebeeckx draws
extensively on Thomas Aquinas's thinking, this early work already
shows that he is not a (neo)Thomist in the narrow sense of the
word. Unlike the single Dutch volume, the English version was
published in two volumes. In the "Collected works of Edward
Schillebeeckx," however, here they are published together in the
sequence that the author envisaged.
"God, the Future of Man" focuses on religion and secularisation,
viewed from various vantage points: secularisation and God-talk;
secularisation and the church's liturgy; secularisation and the
church's new self-understanding; and, finally, secularisation and
the future of humankind on earth in light of the eschaton (church
and social politics). These thought-provoking reflections are
presented against the backdrop of Schillebeeckx's hermeneutic
premises. In the concluding chapter his reflections on
secularisation culminate in a God concept that can function
fruitfully in a modern culture that assigns the future pride of
place: God as the future of humankind. Written in a period pregnant
with Cultural Revolution and religious change, the book foregrounds
the pivotal issue of secularisation in a thought-provoking way.
With feverish urgency he reflects on various forms of religiosity
in the modern world. His contribution to the debate could just as
well have been written today.
This is a new edition of the 1963 classic which gave Christological
thought a new direction. As far back as his first major book
Schillebeeckx propounded an anthropological approach to the
sacraments. In " Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God,"
he draws on theologically fruitful work by phenomenological
anthropologists like Merleau-Ponty, Buytendijk and Binswanger. That
makes Schillebeeckx's distinctive idiom and modern approach
appealing even today. He rediscovers, as it were from within, the
notions forged by scholastic theology, and thus restores to us a
theology of the sacraments rooted in the biblical and patristic
soil from which they first sprang. Schillebeeckx's speculative
synthesis of this quest still has a fresh ring to it. He describes
Christ as the primordial sacrament in a reflection on his public
ministry, death and resurrection inspired by the universal human
search for such a 'sacrament'. He concludes that the church's
sacraments have to be an earthly extension of the liberation
brought by Christ's story. Schillebeeckx ends by describing
sacraments as grace made visible that gives crowning moments in
Christian life a mystical quality. "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.
This is a new edition of the 1963 classic which gave Christological
thought a new direction. As far back as his first major book
Schillebeeckx propounded an anthropological approach to the
sacraments. In Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God , he
draws on theologically fruitful work by phenomenological
anthropologists like Merleau-Ponty, Buytendijk and Binswanger. That
makes Schillebeeckx's distinctive idiom and modern approach
appealing even today. He rediscovers, as it were from within, the
notions forged by scholastic theology, and thus restores to us a
theology of the sacraments rooted in the biblical and patristic
soil from which they first sprang. Schillebeeckx's speculative
synthesis of this quest still has a fresh ring to it. He describes
Christ as the primordial sacrament in a reflection on his public
ministry, death and resurrection inspired by the universal human
search for such a 'sacrament'. He concludes that the church's
sacraments have to be an earthly extension of the liberation
brought by Christ's story. Schillebeeckx ends by describing
sacraments as grace made visible that gives crowning moments in
Christian life a mystical quality. 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.
In effect Revelation and Theology is Schillebeeckx's general
introduction to theology. Its fifteen chapters were originally
published separately between 1954 and 1962, but the thematic
collection offers a vivid picture of the theological renewal in the
wake of World War II. Schillebeeckx's erudition and broad scholarly
orientation are clearly demonstrated in this volume. Throughout
there are pointers to the (at that time new) ecumenical approach to
Scripture and tradition. The problem concerning the function of the
scholastic tradition is highlighted. Although Schillebeeckx draws
extensively on Thomas Aquinas's thinking, this early work already
shows that he is not a (neo)Thomist in the narrow sense of the
word. Unlike the single Dutch volume, the English version was
published in two volumes. In the Collected works of Edward
Schillebeeckx, however, here they are published together in the
sequence that the author envisaged.
God, the Future of Man focuses on religion and secularisation,
viewed from various vantage points: secularisation and God-talk;
secularisation and the church's liturgy; secularisation and the
church's new self-understanding; and, finally, secularisation and
the future of humankind on earth in light of the eschaton (church
and social politics). These thought-provoking reflections are
presented against the backdrop of Schillebeeckx's hermeneutic
premises. In the concluding chapter his reflections on
secularisation culminate in a God concept that can function
fruitfully in a modern culture that assigns the future pride of
place: God as the future of humankind. Written in a period pregnant
with Cultural Revolution and religious change, the book foregrounds
the pivotal issue of secularisation in a thought-provoking way.
With feverish urgency he reflects on various forms of religiosity
in the modern world. His contribution to the debate could just as
well have been written today.
World and Church deals with the conflict between religiosity and
life in the world. Deliberately, Schillebeeckx turns around the
order of the words in the idiom 'church and world', thereby
stressing the embedding of faith and church life in particular
contexts. In the first three chapters he reflects on this tension
as he experienced it in burgeoning existentialism and debates
between Catholics and Marxists in those turbulent years in Paris,
where he was living immediately after World War II. It includes
thoughts on pastoral work among the working class and the then
popular pretres-ouvriers movement. He looks at some social problems
and the mutual interrogation of believers and non-believers, also
in light of the ideological compartmentalisation ('pillarization')
evident in diverse spheres of European society: education, social
work and health care. Schillebeeckx concludes by considering the
responsibility of Catholic intellectuals and academics for the
future of the world and the church, including the possible
significance of a Catholic university
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.
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