This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors not only enrich our ...understanding of the significance of the contextual method, but also produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations. The authors discuss some prioritised thematic perspectives with an emphasis on liberating paths, and expand the ongoing discussion on the methodology of theology into new areas. Themes such as interreligious plurality, global capitalism, ecumenical liberation theology, eco-anxiety and the anthropocene, postcolonialism, gender, neo-pentecostalism, world theology, and reconciliation are examined in situated depth. Additionally, voices from Indigenous lands, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe and North America enter into a dialogue on what it means to contextualise theology in an increasingly globalised and ever-changing world. Such a comprehensive discussion of new ways of thinking about and doing contextual theology will be of great use to scholars in Theology, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Global Studies.
The two-fold task of A Symphony of Distances is to provide
an overview of Hans Urs von Balthasar's use of distance imagery
with regard to personal distinctions in the Holy Trinity and to
offer a ...critical analysis of him as a modern Catholic theologian. A
metaphor of "distance" integrates all of Balthasar's theological
thought as a primary cipher for the many symbols through which he
reads the Christian theological tradition in a trinitarian and
eschatological mode. The book follows a chronological, four-stage
development of Balthasar's trinitarianism through the lens of this
distance metaphor as it occurs across representative texts. The
critical analysis employs the conceit of a symphony of four musical
movements that correspond to four varieties of theological
distance. These distances show certain correspondences of God's
creation and redemption of the world-marked by the first two
"distances"-with the relations of the divine persons to each other
in the economy of salvation and in the eternal Trinity
itself-marked by the third and fourth distances. "Listening" to the
four movements of Balthasar's theological distances enables his
readers to "hear" the themes of all four movements in the ascending
order of richness, complexity, and inclusivity over the long
development of his thought. This fundamentally positive approach of
A Symphony of Distances allows for a thorough critique of
the internal consistency of Balthasar's applied method, of the
controversial use of gendered trinitarian notions in his
speculations on divine pathos, and of his adequacy to the tasks of
modern theology. The final judgment is that Balthasar's theology of
distance can be accepted, with reservations, as a positive element
of his contribution to contemporary trinitarian theology. The book
can thus serve as a critical reference for readers who find
Balthasar's notion of trinitarian distance, and indeed his
trinitarianism as a whole, to be compelling, confusing, or
frustrating.
Este artículo se realiza partiendo de la constatación del dato que muestra la riqueza de la vivencia y comprensión de la sinodalidad de la Iglesia de los primeros siglos. Por un lado, se conoce la ...praxis sinodal llevada adelante en sus diversas expresiones: local, regional, universal. Y, por otro lado, pueden descubrirse los principios teológicos que la sustentan. Este escrito se lleva adelante desde una aproximación a uno de los pasajes finales de la decimoquinta Homilía sobre el Cantar de los Cantares de Gregorio de Nisa. El Niseno no utiliza literalmente la expresión synodos y ninguno de sus derivados en esta ocasión. Sin embargo, las ideas que aparecen allí referidas permiten una intelección del concepto a partir de la imagen simbólica de la Iglesia desde su dinamismo procesional y en un claro contexto bautismal. Gregorio ha sabido examinar la compleja y contradictoria realidad eclesial de su tiempo (siglo IV) atravesada y animada por el Espíritu Santo. La cita aquí analizada de In Cant. XV se convierte en un texto de gran valor histórico-dogmático, que permite encontrar una riquísima matriz conceptual sobre la expresión sinodal de la Iglesia. Se realiza así un aporte para la teología sobre la Iglesia mostrando su dimensión pneumática, alcanzando una mejor comprensión del concepto de sinodalidad a partir del misterio de la gloria de la comunión. Esta concepción eclesiológica es profundamente pneumatológica y permite pensar el núcleo entitativo de la noción en cuestión desde la unión armoniosa y dinámica de los elementos contrarios de acuerdo al todo. Desde los puntos señalados puede realizarse un aporte al debate actual sobre la teología y praxis de la sinodalidad en la Iglesia del siglo XXI, que todavía debe seguir siendo profundamente analizada.
When I attended my first Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting in November of 1987 after having begun seminary teaching earlier that fall, there was no Book of Psalms program unit. Here ...are his words from his volume's "Implications for Further Work": Reading individual psalms via their Sitz im Leben, though useful, speculates on one historical slice of the Psalms and fails to grasp its role in the larger programmatic message as we have shown. ...I would date the end of the dominance of form criticism not to Wilson's 1985 work, but rather to the 1968 SBL presidential address by James Muilenburg, "Form Criticism and Beyond," in which he suggested that form criticism, while it could remain useful, "has outrun its course. Spieckermann wants interpreters to attend to the "individuality of every single psalm," and this is precisely what Muilenburg and Alonso Schökel were advocating.9 As Muilenburg put it, "What I am interested in, above all, is understanding the nature of Hebrew literary composition, in exhibiting the structural patterns that are employed for the fashioning of a literary unit, whether in poetry or prose, and in discerning the many and various devices by which the predications are formulated and ordered into a unified whole.
This essay argues that Jean‐Luc Marion’s theology of nature and grace provides a lens through which to assess his entire project. It considers his thought with attention to the nouvelle théologie ...movement and issues that arise for a contemporary theology of nature and grace—focusing on the question of a shared human ‘nature.’ The article demonstrates how problematic emphases of Marion’s phenomenological account of the self’s givenness mirror a conflation of nature and grace in his explicitly theological work. It then points briefly to what Marion’s project might gain through the intervention of a key insight from Josef Pieper’s The Silence of St. Thomas. Marion and Pieper engender two versions of apophaticism with divergent approaches to the mystery of our shared human nature. In the light of this, I show how Pieper offers a corrective to Marion’s theology that could make his overall project a better resource for theologians. The analysis results in a constructive proposal for approaching nature and grace through dialogical engagement with the disciplines of phenomenology and theological metaphysics.
Although scholars often assume that Luke and Justin similarly claim the sacred texts of Jews for the non-Jewish church, this book offers a fresh analysis that uncovers significant differences between ...their respective depictions of the relationship between Christ-believers and the Jewish scriptures.
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