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Author Hampson, Margaret Daphne

Title Christian contradictions : the structures of Lutheran and Catholic thought / Daphne Hampson
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 323 pages) : illustrations
Contents Luther's revolution -- The Catholic alternative -- Catholic incomprehension -- Nygren's detractors -- Ecumenical encounter -- Dialogue with Bultmann -- Kierkegaard's odyssey
Summary Catholic thought and Lutheran thought are differently structured, embodying divergent conceptions of self and God. Failing to grasp the Lutheran paradigm, Catholics have wrenched Luther into an inappropriate framework. Roman/Lutheran ecumenism, culminating in the 'Joint Declaration' of 1999, attempts to reconcile incompatible systems, based on different philosophical presuppositions. Drawing on a wealth of material, both Continental and Anglo-Saxon, the author thinks through these structural questions within a historical context. But how - within a religion of revelation - can God be conceptualised as both foundational to the self and yet also as an 'other' with whom the self inter-relates? Kierkegaard is shown in a complex model to hold together strengths which historically have been exemplified by the two traditions. This is an important work in systematic theology which considers questions quite fundamental to Western religion. It should be of interest to theologians of all backgrounds and also to church historians
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-315) and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Catholic Church -- Relations -- Lutheran Church.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Lutheran Church -- Relations -- Catholic Church
Lutheran Church -- Doctrines.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
Interfaith relations
Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church -- Doctrines
Theology, Doctrinal
Leerstellingen.
Oecumene.
Lutheranisme.
Rooms-katholicisme.
Form Electronic book
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