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Phụ đề: The Human Story of God
Tác giả: Edward Schillebeeckx
Ký hiệu tác giả: SC-E
DDC: 262 - Giáo hội học
Ngôn ngữ: Anh
Số cuốn: 1

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Mã số: 617BC0003759
Nhà xuất bản: Crossroad Pub Co
Năm xuất bản: 1990
Khổ sách: 22
Số trang: 268
Kho sách: Ban Thần
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Foreword xiii
A Guide to the Book xvii
Chapter 1: World History and Salvation History, History of Revelation and History of Suffering 1
1. Introduction: who or what brings human beings salvation and liberation? 1
2. "No salvation outside the world" 5
I. The experience of radical contrast in our human history 5
II. The process of liberation in human history as the medium and meterial of divine revelation 6
III. The difference between the history of salvation and the history of revelation 9
IV. Religions and churches as the sacraments of salvation in the world 13
3. Experiences of revelation: in the secular and religious sense 15
Introduction 15
I. The cognitive structure of human experiences 15
A. Experience and the tradition of experience 15
B. Concealed elements in our experiences: experience and ideology 16
1. The ideological use of language 17
2. Suspicion about suppressed use of language 17
3. The danger of an appeal to our talk of "direct experiences" 18
4. Language and the specific social posion of the speaker 18
5. Language and the use of models 19
6. Elements of projection in language 19
7. Non-religious elements in the use of religious language 20
Conclusion 20
II. Experiences of revelation in everyday- human, secular language 22
A. "That was-or"You were"- a revelation to me" 22
B. The changing density of revelation in human experiences 23
III. Religiuos experiences of revelation 24
A. The religiuos use of human categories of experience 24
B. revelation in religiuos experiences: "divine revelation" 27
4. Experiences subjected to the criticism of stories of suffering 28
I. Resistance: the truth and authority of suffering and oppressed men and women 28
II. Liberating "autonomous ethics" within a context of faith 30
5. Old biblical and present-day Christian experiences of faith 33
I. Tradition and situation: a definition of concepts 34
II. Encounter between different cultures and traditions of faith 36
III. Present-day society and culture comes within the understanding of revelation 40
Chapter 2: Men and Women in Search of God, God is Search of Men and Women 46
1. Why God has become a problem for Western men and women 46
I. External factors 46
A. No need for a "dualistic" posing of the problem 46
B. Difficulties over belief in God in the moderb Western world 49
C. The present "world context" of belief in God 53
II. Internal factors 55
A. "You are a hidden God" (Isaiah 45.15) 55
B. Belief in God and its instituitionalization in the church 59
C. Belief in God at odds with official church morality 61
2. Religious as the concrete context of talk about God 62
I. Talking about and to God within the context of a tradition religious experience or a religion 62
II. Talking about God within philosophical reflection on one's own religious attitude 63
III. God: as a so-called "extra-religious", autonomous philosophical question 64
IV. The "theological passive" in talk about God in a secularized world 65
V. "Good heavens", "My God", as echoes of a religious society in a secularized world 65
Conclusion 65
3. The mystical or theological depth-dimension of human existence 66
I. Are faith in God, prayer and mysticism one? 66
II. Mystical silence and mystical talk about God 72
III. The absolute limit 77
IV. The rationality of belief in God 80
A. Christian, Jew, Budddist, Muslim, by birth- or "nothing" 80
B. The meta-ethical or religious basis of the human praxis of justice and love 83
1. In search of criterion 83
2. Experiences of the aporia of God's omnipotence and helplessness 85
3. Ethics as a religious challenge 91
Conclusion 98
4. Letting God be God 99
Chapter 3  
Christians find God above all in Jesus Christ 102
Introduction 102
1. Unity and tension between "Jesus of Nazareth" and the "Christ of the church's faith" 103
Preface 103
1. Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ 104
2. What the historical-critical method teachs the believer 105
3. The process of the growth of scripture as a witness to the church's mediation in the transition from "Jesus" to "Christ" 107
2. The career of Jesus, confessed as the Christ 111
I. The theocentric focus of Jesus' message and career: the kingdom of God as the real "cause of Jesus" 111
A. The message of the kingdom of God and renewal of life (metanoia) 111
B. Parables of the kingdom of God 114
C. Jesus' praxis of the kingdom of God 116
D. The kingdom of God and Jesus' career 118
E. The career and death of Jesus 119
F. Jesus' message and career raise a new question 121
II. From the theocentricity of Jesus to the christtocentricity of the New Testament and the church 123
A. From Jesus who speaks to us of God to the church which speaks to us of Christ 123
B. The saving significance of Jesus's life and death 124
C. Belief in the resurrection of Jesus 127
III. The kingdom of God: "already and not yet" 132
A. Present-day experience of the kingdom of God as the foundation of a firm hope in a final consummation planned by God 132
B. Is there a counterpart to this fourfold 'heavenly" vision of the future for 'evil people'? 134
3. The kingdom of God: universal creation and salvation from God in a paticular person, Jesus Christ 139
I. Men and women as God's story on the model of the Davidic King 139
II. God's trust in human beings is finally not put to shame in Jesus 142
4. The unique and definitive character of the mission of Jesus Christ as a historical task and the basis for the church and its mission in the world 144
Introduction 144
I. The church: in the power of the Spirit, the witness to the career of Jesus 146
A. The ekklesia of God: community of God 146
B. The Jewish roots of the church's Christianity 147
C. The church: a witness to Jesus's way towards the kingdom of God 154
D. The past: living recollection of Jesus (the church tradition), and the present: the Holy Spirit 157
E. "Communion" and instituition 158
II. Good and bad questions in connection with the uniqueness of the Christian church 159
III. The universality and historical contingency of Jesus's career 164
IV. Specific present-day forms of Christian universality or catholicity 168
V. The universality of Jesus in connection with the question of the universal meaning of history 171
A. Experience of meaning and truth 171
B. The Christian experiental tradition as a practical anticipation of universal meaning 175
C. Orthodoxy is at stake in orthopraxis 177
VI. The God who escapes all our identifications 179
VII. Consequnces for the church's mission 182
Chapter 4  
Towards Democartic Rule of the Church as a Community of God 187
Introduction 187
1. The specific historical face of the church 188
I. Abstract and historically coloured ecclesiologies 188
II. The mystert of the church according to Vatican II 189
A. The kingdom of God and the Christian churches 189
B. "Ecclesia sancta" (one, holy, catholic and apostolic), "sed semper purificanda" 195
III. The so-call "classical" face of the church and the other face (with a more biblical profile) 198
A. The church as a pyramidal hierachy 198
B. The intensification of the hierarchical character of the church: its anti-democratic face between the French Revolution and the period before Vatican II 199
C. New post-Vatican perspectives inspired by the "liberal" Second Vatican Council 207
D. Stemming the tide of the breakthrough at Vatican II, subsequently legitimated by an ideological appeal to the term "church as mystery" 210
2. Democratic government of the church through its ministers 214
Introduction 214
I. Speaking with authority and letting oneself be told: the subjection of the whole church to the Word of God 214
II. The Holy Spirit, foundation of all authority, including official authority, in the church, and the variety of instruments through which it works 216
A. The Holy Spirit, source of all authority in the church 216
B. Instrinsic theological reasons for the democratic exercising of authority in the church 220
1. The instruments of the Holy Spirit 220
2. The vulnerable rule of God as a model for ministerial authority in the church 221
3. The interplay of official teaching authority and the teaching authority of believers and their theologians (always in some tension) 223
Chapter 5  
By Way of an Epilogue 229
1. Has the church still a future? 229
2. The worldly or cosmic aspect of the kingdom of God 234
Notes and Bibliography 247
Divided by chapter. At the beginning of the notes, also by chapter, can be found basic literature relating to the theme discussed in that chapter
Index of Authors 265