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Author Küng, Hans, 1928-

Title Theology for the third millennium : an ecumenical view / Hans Küng ; translated by Peter Heinegg
Edition First edition
Published New York : Doubleday, 1988

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Description xvi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Foreword -- Direction: on the way to "postmodernity" -- Postmodern: a heuristic concept -- Crisis and the departure toward the new -- The function of religion in postmodernity -- [Part I.] Classical conflicts -- [Section I.] Ecumenical theology caught in the cross fire -- Consequences of the dispute between Rome, Luther, and Erasmus -- Chances for a third force? -- The restoration of the counter-reformation -- Erasmus the unloved -- A reformer before the reformers -- The emergency: Wittenberg versus Rome -- Between Rome and Wittenberg: neutrality instead of commitment -- Martin Luther's share of the guilt -- On the responsibility of theology at the moment of truth -- Ecumenical theology between aggression and flight
[Part II.] Future perspectives -- [section I.] How does one do Christian theology? -- Steps toward understanding -- Vatican II and its consequences -- A comparison of two Christologies / Edward Schillebeeckx -- What is the norm for Christian theology? -- The consensus on historico-critical exegesis -- What to do in the jungle of hypotheses? -- What is the horizon of Catholic theology? -- Critical correlation without critical confrontation? -- [Section II.] Paradigm change in theology and science -- Fundamental historical-theological clarification -- In search of connections -- The theoretical framework -- What does paradigm change mean? / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Macro, meso, and micro paradigms -- How does novelty come into being?: parallels from natural science and theology -- A total break? the question of continuity -- Differences between theology and science -- A critical ecumenical theology -- Horizon? the world (first constant) -- What standard? the Christianmessage (second constant)
[Part III.] A new departure toward a theology of the world religions -- [Section I.] on paradigm change in the world religions -- Preliminary reflections on an analysis of the religious situation of the age -- The distinction between religion and paradigm -- The question of epochal thresholds -- The survival of "outdated" paradigms in art and religion -- Does paradigm change mean progress? -- Constants and variables in Buddhism -- [Section II.] Is there one true religion? -- An essay in establishing ecumenical criteria -- One or several: a pragmatic solution? -- Four basic positions -- The knotty question of a criterion for truth -- The human element: general ethical criterion -- The authentic or canonical: general religious criterion -- On the specifically Christian criterion -- On the way to ever greater truth
[Part IV.] Karl Barth and the postmodern paradigm -- Dates and places of original publication -- Theological confrontation -- Catholic attempts at understanding -- Ecumenical understanding -- Karl Barth: initiator of a "postmodern" paradigm in theology -- Karl Barth: not the perfector of the postmodern paradigm in theology -- Creation-revelation: the permanent challenge of "natural theology" -- Criticism of "theological exegesis": the permanent challenge of Rudolf Bultmann -- A critical-sympathetic rereading of Barth against the background of postmodernity
[Pt. I / Section II.] The Bible and Church tradition -- Unfinished business between Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy -- Scripture "and" tradition: the Catholic answer to Luther -- Scripture "or" tradition: a weak compromise by Vatican -- Scripture taken literally: the Protestant version of infallibility -- Does inspired mean unerring? Vatican II and the Bible -- The ecumenical solution: scripture as testimony to revelation -- Is the orthodox tradition in keeping with scripture?: the problem of the Eastern Church -- Yes to the Bible, tradition, and authority -- No to biblicism, traditionalism, and authoritarianism -- What Christians believe in
[Pt. I / Section III.] Schism because of the Bible? -- On the problem of the unity of scripture and the Church -- Is the unity of the Church grounded in the New Testament canon? / Ernst Kä̈semann -- The dispute over unity / Hermann Diem -- Narrowing the area of discussion: agreements -- The reason for the multiplicity of confessions: selection -- Evangelical Catholicity as an imperative -- Postscript 1986 -- [Pt. I / Section IV.]Dogma versus the Bible? -- Historico-critical exegesis as a challenge to dogmatic theology -- on the misery of today's dogmatic theology -- The sacraments: "instituted by christ"? -- Church offices: "in the apostolic succession"? -- Jesus Christ: in the shadow of dogma?
[Pt. II / Section III.] A new basic model of theology? -- Disputable and indisputable points -- "Paradigm": a controversial concept -- Clarifications -- The present-day crisis: what we don't have to argue about any more -- Four dimensions of the postmodern paradigm -- [Pt. II / Section IV.] Theology on the way to a new paradigm -- Reflections on my own career -- The paradigm of Catholic traditionalism -- Speculative escape routes? / Karl Rahner -- A theology of crisis / Karl Barth -- Bridging the gap between exegesis and dogmatic theology -- The Christian message as the basic norm of theology -- Today's world of experience as the horizon of theology -- From the modern-enlightened to the postmodern paradigm -- Theology in the postmodern paradigm -- Ethos and style of critical ecumenical theology
Summary Discusses theological issues, the principles of Christian theology, the relationship between Christianity and the world's religions, and the postmodernism of Karl Barth
Analysis Theology - Methodology
Notes Includes indexes
Translation of: Theologie im Aufbruch
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293)
Notes Translation of: Theologie im Aufbruch
Subject Christianity and other religions.
Ecumenical movement.
Theology -- Methodology.
Theology, Doctrinal.
Christianity.
Religion.
Author Heinegg, Peter.
LC no. 87029621
ISBN 0385244983
9780385244985
Other Titles Theologie im Aufbruch. English