دانلود کتاب Essays. Ongoing Theological Quests Volume XI

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Cover\nHalf-Title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nIntroduction to COLLECTED WORKS OF EDWARD SCHILLEBEECKX\nIntroduction to ESSAYS ONGOING THEOLOGICAL QUESTS\nChapter 1 Experience and faith\n I. Experiences of revelation in everyday human life\n 1. ‘It was a revelation to me’\n 2. Varying revelational density of human experience\n II. Religious experiences of revelation\n 1. Religious use of human experiential categories\n 2. Revelation in religious experiences of revelation\n III. Religious experience - ‘faith through hearing’ or ‘faith through experience’: a false dilemma\n 1. General structure of experience\n 2. Structure of religious experiences\n 3. Apostolic and present-day religious experience\n IV. Authority of experiences\n 1. General conditions for the authority of experiences\n 2. Authority of experiences of threatened humanity: contrast experience or the authority of suffering humans\n 3. The authority of Christian religious experiences\n 4. Gospel based criticism of present-day experience\n 5. Criticism based on present-day experience of apostolic and traditional religious experience\n V. Experience of meaning, truth and reality or being\n 1. The question of universal meaning\n 2. Christian experiential tradition as a practical anticipation of universal meaning\n 3. Experience of meaning and experience of truth\n 4. In orthopraxis orthodoxy itself is at stake\n VI. Possibility of real religious experience in the circumstances of modern society\n 1. A one-sided culture impoverishes human experience\n 2. Social conditions for handing down a living Christian experiential tradition\n 3. Religious praxis offers a historical and social basis for Christian interpretive experiential tradition\n VII. Human experience and the work of the Holy Spirit\nChapter 2 The search for the living God\nChapter 3 Theological interpretation of faith in 1983\n Parting words\n 1. The ‘twin poles ‘: tradition and situation\n 1. Definition of tradition and situation\n 2. Dialectic relation between tradition and situation\n 2. Criticism of ideology in hermeneutic theology\nChapter 4 Liberating theology\n 1. Influence of Third World theology on Western theology\n 1. Reversal of roles\n 2. New ethical and legal situations\n 3. Efficiency or justice?\n 2. Theological hermeneutics of radical contrast experiences\n 1. Ethics of indignation\n 2. Solid hope transcending all contexts\n 3. Divine salvation by means of liberating human deeds\n 4. Beyond dualism\n 5. Traces of the liberating God\nChapter 5 Discontinuities in Christian dogmas\n 1. The place of dogmas in the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus confessed as the Christ\n 1. What is a dogma?\n 2. What is revelation?\n 3. What is papal infallibility?\n 2. Partly because of changes and discontinuities in formulation dogma remains true\n 1. Conjunctural and structural changes\n 2. Some angles on, and concrete examples of, dogmatic changes\n 3. Attitude of believers towards non-ex cathedra pronouncements by the magisterium authenticum\nChapter 6 Theological quests\n 1. Clarification and specification of some concepts in ecclesiology\n A. Proposition\n What is a dogma?\n What is revelation?\n What is ecclesiastic and so-called papal infallibility?\n B. Observation\n 2. Living by grace of God’s creative, loving closeness: creation and grace\n 3. The mystery of God\n A. Absolute freedom\n God’s being as a constant surprise\n The hidden, silent God; atheism\n Not just talk about God, but talk to a listening God\n Holiness and prayer\n B. The Holy Trinity\n A diffident confession\n Humans, Jesus Christ, God\n 4. Eschatology: life beyond death\n Does death have the last word?\n And then … purgatory!\n The so-called fable of the lost earthly paradise\n Parousia (Jesus’ return): a concept from the world of science fiction?\n 5. Ethics and religion\n Is ethics autonomous?\n Ethics, integrated with a religious context\n Ethical relations with others is the human scene where God reveals his presence\n 6. Some contemporary problems in the church\n Offices in the community of the church\n Voluntary celibacy versus mandatory celibacy linked to holy orders Ordination of women\n Future of religious life: living together ‘in the Lord’ for the good of human beings\n 7. Review: gradually emerging basic structure of my theological thinking\n Current context of Christian religious discussion\n Fundamental contrast experiences\n Human faith and unshakable hope: ‘autonomously human’ virtues already present in humankind prior to religion\n Role of the religions\n Jesus’ distinctive ‘ministry of God’\n The ultimate destiny of humankind ...\n ... already starts on earth\n Theology and spirituality\nChapter 7 Culture, religion and violence: theology as a component of culture\n 1. Exploring the field\n 2. Towards a definition of what culture really is – or is it necessary?\n 1. General definitions of culture\n 2. Reason for and source of all culture\n 3. Culture, art: also a language\n 3. Disappearance of fixed cultural points of reference\n 4. Relation to the transcendent and violence\nChapter 8 Towards a rediscovery of the Christian sacraments: Ritualising religious elements in daily life\n Introduction\n 1. Archaic religious images deter believers from joining in liturgic celebrations\n 2. Reactions to the breach between anthropology and theology in traditional and modern sacramental doctrine\n 1. Reactions in theology and in empirical science (including the Ritual Studies ‘school’)\n 2. Questions that are inadequately answered, and pointless questions that need no answers\n 1. The institution of the sacraments, and how many are there?\n 2. No isolated materia et forma, but a broadening of the liturgical field, both materially and spiritually\n 3. Opus operatum and opus operantis\n 4. Linking ‘sign’ with causation: a categorical error\n 3. Outline of a new view of sacramental liturgy, theology and pastoral practice\n Religion in everyday life, stylised and flexibly distilled into symbolic rites\n Postcript on the term ‘performance’\nTable of original publication