Stepping stones to other religions : a Christian theology of inter-religious dialogue /
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| Author / Creator: | Lane, Dermot A., 1941- |
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| Imprint: | Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2011. |
| Description: | 328 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8920100 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I. Theology in a Radically New Context
- 1. 9/11 and the New Globalisation
- a. The Modern Neglect of Religion
- b. The Turn to Multiculturalism
- c. A Post-9/11, New Interest in Religion
- 2. The Ambiguous Return of Religion to the Public Square
- a. The Impact of Globalisation
- b. The Rise of Vague Religiosities
- c. The New Visibility of Religion - A Matter of Debate
- 3. Theology Caught between Modernity and Post-Modernity
- a. Collapse of the Classical Synthesis of God, the Cosmos and the Self
- b. The Rise of Onto-Theology
- c. David Taylor's Take on the Gradual Shift from Faith to Unbelief
- 4. A Peep at Post-Modernity
- a. The Mood of Post-Modernity
- b. Some Positive Aspects of Post-Modernity
- c. The Possibility of a New, Second Modernity
- 2. The Explicit Treatment of Other Religions
- a. The 1961 Lecture
- b. Christ in Non-Christian Religions
- c. The Importance of Other Religions for Salvation
- d. The Universal Presence of the Spirit in the World
- 3. A Critical Review of Rahner
- a. A Pioneer of Dialogue and Inclusivism
- b. A Critical Examination of Rahner on Christ in Relation to Other Religions
- c. Rahner's Treatment of Other Religions
- 4. Standing on the Shoulders of Rahner in the Context of Inter-Religious Dialogue
- a. Rahner and Post-Modernism
- b. Inclusive Pluralism
- c. Christianity as an Open and Unfinished Narrative
- V. The Turn to the Spirit: Elements Within a Fundamental Theology of the Holy Spirit
- 1. A Starting Point for Dialogue with the Religions: Pneumatology and/or Trinity?
- a. Taking a Trinitarian Approach
- b. Adopting Pneumatology
- c. Reasons for starting with Pneumatology
- 2. Bernard Lonergan and Frederick Crowe on the Priority of Pneumatology
- a. Lonergan's Principles
- b. Crowe's Development of Lonergan
- c. Consequences and Challenges
- 3. Philosophical Problems with Spirit-Talk
- a. A Cultural Awkwardness with Spirit-Talk
- b. Summary of Prejudices against a Discourse about the Spirit
- 4. Philosophical Resources for Spirit-Talk
- a. The Shift from Substance to Subject
- b. Engaging critically with the Turn to the Subject
- c. New Analogies
- 5. Signposts to Spirit-Talk
- a. Anthropology and Pneumatology
- b. Putting Spirit Back into Matter
- c. 'To Think Spirit... Think Materially'
- VI. Pneumatology and Revelation
- 1. Reasons prompting a Pneumatology of Revelation
- a. Vatican II and John Paul II
- b. Pauline Literature Links the Spirit with Revelation
- c. The Action of the Spirit in Judaism and Creation
- d. The Spirit as 'the Subjective Possibility of Revelation'
- 2. Review of Dei Verbum
- a. A Shift in the Understanding of Revelation at Vatican II
- b. An Overview of Dei Verbum
- c. Gaps in Dei Verbum
- d. Linking Pneumatology and Christology in the Service ofRevelation
- 3. The Ingredients of a Pneumatology of Revelation
- a. Imagination and Theology
- b. Imagination and the Holy Spirit
- 4. Different Types of Revelation
- a. Rahner's Two-Fold Revelation: Transcendental andCategorical
- b. Monotheistic Revelation and Mystical Revelation
- c. Christ as the 'Completion' of the Revelation of God in History
- d. The Universality of the Revelation of God among the Nations and the Religions
- 5. Knowledge, Reason and Faith
- a. There Is More than One Way of Knowing
- b. Questioning the Self-Sufficiency of Secular Reason: Expanding Horizons
- c. The Relationship between Faith and Reason
- II. The Catholic Church and Other Religions
- 1. Vatican II on Other Religions
- a. The Gentle but Determined Influence of John XXIII
- b. An Outline of NostraAetate
- c. Light on Nostra Aetate from Other Documents of Vatican II
- d. Initial Evaluation of Nostra Aetate
- 2. The Reception of Nostra Aetate in the Post-Conciliar Period
- a. Encyclicals of John Paul II Promoting Dialogue with Other Religions
- b. Dialogue and Proclamation (1991)
- c. Dominus Iesus (2000)
- d. Post-Conciliar Documents on the Jews
- e. Prophetic Gestures of John Paul II
- 3. Benedict XVI on Inter-Religious Dialogue
- a. Benedict XVI and Catholic-Jewish Relations
- b. Benedict XVI and Islam-A Shift in Focus
- c. Benedict XVI and Assisi 2011
- 4. Challenges Arising from Vatican II Regarding Other Religions
- a. Nostra Aetate as a Theological and Pneumatological Event
- b. The Council as a Christological Challenge
- c. Nostra Aetate as an Ecclesial Call to a Dialogue of Mutuality
- III. Mapping the Debate in the Twentieth Century and Early Twenty-First Century
- 1. Overview of the Debate in the Twentieth Century and EarlyTwenty-First Century
- a. The Three-Fold Typology
- b. Discussion among Theologians
- c. Interventions by the.Catholic Church
- 2. A Critique of the Three-Fold Typology
- a. Critique of Religious Pluralism
- b. The Legitimacy of Theological Pluralism
- 3. Moving Beyond the Impasse
- a. Inclusive Pluralism
- b. Universal-Access Exclusivism
- 4. The Dialogical Imperative of Vatican II
- a. Paul VI on Dialogue and Vatican II
- b. Elements within a Theology of Dialogue
- c. Dialogue as Conversation
- d. Guidelines for Dialogue
- e. Dialogue - A Shared Search for Truth
- f. Dialogue between the Particular and the Universal
- IV. Karl Rahner's Contribution to Inter-Religious Dialogue
- 1. Rahner on Christ and Other Religions
- a. The Experience of God
- b. Relocating the Christ-Event within the History of the World
- c. The Presence of a Searching Christology within Other Religions
- VII. Developing a Christian Theology of the Holy Spirit
- 1. The Spirit in the First Testament
- a. Spirit in the History of Israel
- b. Spirit in the Stories of Creation
- 2. The Spirit in the Second Testament
- a. The Gift of the Holy Spirit in the Life of Jesus
- b. The Gift of the Spirit in the Early Christian Communities
- 3. Constructing a Spirit Christology
- a. Congar, Crowe and the Patristic Period
- b. Reasons for a Spirit Christology
- c. A Plurality of Spirit Christologies
- d. Advantages of a Spirit Christology
- 4. Towards a Spirit Ecclesiology
- a. A New Pentecost at Vatican II?
- b. Calls for a Spirit-Centred Theology
- c. Recovering a Spirit-Centred Ecclesiology
- d. Ecclesiology in the Service of Pneumatology
- 5. Discerning the Spirit in the Churches, in Religions and in the World
- a. Historical Narratives of the Spirit in Judaism and Christianity
- b. Theological Criteria
- c. Attending to the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit
- VIII. The Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Sign of Hope for the Future of Inter-Religious Dialogue
- 1. A Breakthrough at Vatican II
- a. A Summary of Nostra Aetate, Article
- b. Documents Supporting Nostra Aetate
- 2. The Unrevoked Covenant of God with Israel
- a. Returning to Romans 9-11
- b. From an Extrinsic to an Intrinsic Relationshipwith Second Temple Judaism
- 3. Doing Christology in the Light of Nostra Aetate
- a. The Jewishness of Jesus
- b. The Jesus Movement as a Reform Movement withinSecond Temple Judaism
- c. A Gradual Parting of the Ways
- 4. Unresolved Theological Questions in theJewish-Christian Dialogue
- a. The Horror of the Holocaust
- b. Where Is God in Human Suffering?
- c. Keeping the Memory of the Shoah Alive andthe Williamson Affair
- d. One or Many Covenants?
- 5. Other Disputed Theological Issues
- a. The Question of Mission
- b. Prayer for the Jews
- c. Similar but Different Eschatologies
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
