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In Memoriam Edward Schillebeeckx, OP (1914-2009)
Prof. dr. Lieven Boeve, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. dr. Ben Vedder, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Letter from Edward Schillebeeckx to the Participants in the Symposium 'Theology
for the 21st Century: The Enduring Relevance of Edward Schillebeeckx for
Contemporary Theology' (Leuven - December 3-6, 2008)
Preface
Frederiek Depoortere
List of Contributors
INTRODUCTION
The Enduring Significance and Relevance of Edward Schillebeeckx: Introducing
the State of the Question in Medias Res, Lieven Boeve
PART I 'God Is New Each Moment': The Question of God in Modernity
God, the Luxury of Our Lives: Schillebeeckx and the Argument, Anthony J. Godzieba
Taking Atheism Seriously: A Challenge for Theology in the 21st Century,
Frederiek Depoortere
PART II 'Everything Is Politics But Politics is Not Everything': The Social
Role of Theology
When Everything becomes Political: Reading Schillebeeckx on Faith and Politics
in the Contemporary United States, Vincent J. Miller
New Orientations of the Political: On the Contemporary Challenge of Political
Theology,Jürgen Manemann
PART III 'God Is Bigger Than All Religions Put Together': The Dialogue Between
the Religions
God Before Us, God Among Us: Interreligious Dialogue from an Intercultural
Feminist Perspective, Gemma Tulud Cruz
Which Christological Tools for the Interreligious Dialogue?, Jean-Louis
Souletie
PART IV 'Deus humanissimus': Suffering and Experiences of Negative Contrast
Suffering, Resistance, and Hope: Women's Experience of Negative Contrast and
Christology, Kathleen McManus, OP
The Threatened Humanum as Imago Dei: Anthropology and Christian Ethics, Mary
Catherine Hilkert, OP
'Dark Light': Wrestling with the Angel at the Edge of History, Elizabeth
Kennedy Tillar
PART V 'It Began With an Experience': Church and Tradition in an Age of
Globalization and Liquidization
Pushed to a Precarious Flexibility: Where to Go if Tradition Has No Answer and
Apocalypse Is No Alternative, Hans-Joachim Sander
History and Tradition: Catholicism and the Challenge of Globalized Modernity,
Oliver Davies
The Church with a Human Face, Marc Dumas
PART VI Philosophy and Theology
Implicit Faith: Philosophical Theology after Schillebeeckx, Stephan van Erp
Conversation, Identity and Truth, Benoît Bourgine
PART VII Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Past and Future of
Schillebeeckx's Theological Project
Retrieving God's Contemporary Presence: The Future of Edward Schillebeeckx's
Theology of Culture, Erik Borgman
Schillebeeckx
and Theology in the Twenty-First Century, Robert J. Schreiter
Theology for the 21st Century: A Commentary on the Symposium, Kathleen Dolphin,
PBVM
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