Grace, Governance and Globalization

by Poulsom, Martin G.; Boeve, Lieven; van Erp, Stephan; Depoortere, Frederiek; O.P., Kathleen McManus; van Erp, Stephan

• ISBN13: 9780567667649
• ISBN10: 0567667642
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-02-09
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

What role does, could or should theology play in current discussions about our political realities? Is there a place for theological worldviews in the public conversation about policy making? Should theology critically unmask the underlying theological and metaphysical sources of contemporary politics?

The contributors to this volume reflect on new questions in public and political theology, inspired by the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx. They discuss a variety of theological traditions and theories that could offer substantial contributions to current political challenges, and debate whether theology should contribute to the liberation of communities of poor and suffering people.

Author Biography

Stephan van Erp is Associate Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Lieven Boeve is a Belgian Catholic theologian and a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Martin G. Poulsom is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Heythrop College, London, UK.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

1. Prof. Stephan van Erp
The Sacrament of Public Life

PART I: THEOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS: 'IF POLITICS ISN'T EVERYTHING…'

2. Prof. Sebastian Kim (York St John University, UK)
Towards a Hermeneutic for Public Theology: A Conversation with Schillebeeckx and Habermas
3. Dr. Edmund Kee-Fook Chia (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
Glimpses of Schillebeeckx in Asian Theological Hermeneutics
4. Prof. Siobhán Garrigan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
The Hermeneutics of Intersubjectivity: A Study of Homeless Theologies
5. Dr. Kevin Considine (Calumet College of St. Joseph, USA)
From Han to Mystical-Political Praxis: An Intercultural Dialogue with Schillebeeckx on Salvation

PART II: CHRISTOLOGY: 'THE PRAXIS OF THE REIGN OF GOD'

6. Prof. Graham Ward (University of Oxford, UK)
Secularism as a State Ideology
7. Prof. Erik Borgman (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Jesus Can Only Save Because He is Saved: A Thomistic Logic in Schillebeeckx' Christology
8. Prof. Aristotle Papanikolaou (Fordham University, USA)
Overcoming Political Nestorianism: Lessons from Chalcedon
9. Dr. Martin Poulsom (Heythrop College, UK)
Concentrating on Creation: Christ in a Context of Climate Change

PART III: ESCHATOLOGY: 'GOD, THE FUTURE OF MAN'

10. Prof. Christoph Hübenthal (RU Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Are the Last Things Exclusively Positive: Eschatology and Public Theology
11. Dr. Michael Kirwan (Heythrop College, UK)
'Putting the Facts to Shame': Eschatology and the Discourse of Martyrdom
12. Dr. Frederiek Depoortere (KU Leuven, Belgium)
The Politics of Alterity: Reading Schillebeeckx Through Lyotard
13. Dr. Vincent Lloyd (Syracuse University, USA)
Afro-Pessimism and Christian Hope

PART IV: ECCLESIOLOGY: 'THE CHURCH WITH A HUMAN FACE'

14. Prof. William Cavanaugh (De Paul University, USA)
Sacrament, Enchantment, and Idolatry: Looking for Grace in the Secular
15. Prof. Emmanuel Katongole (Notre Dame University, USA)
'Things Which Can Be Seen Only by Eyes That Have Cried'. Towards a Political Theology of Lament
16. Dr. Elizabeth Phillips (University of Cambridge, UK)
The Church and the Elusive 'Public'
17. Prof. Annemarie Mayer (KU Leuven, Belgium)
The Church in the Limelight of the Public Square: An Alternative Community?

CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS