The New Catholicity

by Schreiter, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9781570751202
• ISBN10: 157075120X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

Following his widely acclaimed "Constructing Local Theologies", Robert J. Schreiter's "The New Catholicity" takes a close look at the issues that are reshaping theology today. Schreiter proposes that an expanded concept of catholicity can meet the challenge of forming a theology that can cohere between the opposites of "global" and "local".

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	ix
1. GLOBALIZATION AND THE CONTEXTS OF THEOLOGY	1	(27)
The "Context" in Contextual Theology	1	(3)
Globalization: The Extension of Modernity and the Compression of the World	4	(10)
From a Bipolar to a Multipolar World	5	(1)
A Single World Economy	6	(2)
New Communications Technologies	8	(1)
Globalization as Extension	9	(2)
Globalization as Compression	11	(1)
The Global and the Local	12	(1)
Reflexivity and Risk	12	(2)
Religion and Theology in a Globalized World	14	(12)
Global Theological Flows	15	(6)
Cultural Logics	21	(5)
The Meaning of Context in a Globalized World	26	(2)
2. INTERCULTURAL HERMENEUTICS: ISSUES AND PROSPECTS	28	(18)
Introduction	28	(2)
Elements in the Discussion of Intercultural Hermeneutics	30	(3)
Aims of Intercultural Hermeneutics	33	(1)
The Interpretive Events as Communication Event	34	(5)
Intercultural Hermeneutics in Its Epistemology	39	(5)
Meaning	39	(2)
Truth	41	(1)
Balancing Difference and Sameness	42	(1)
Agency	43	(1)
Further Issues	44	(2)
3. CHANGING CONCEPTS OF CULTURE AND INTERCULTURAL THEOLOGY	46	(16)
Introduction	46	(1)
Integrated Concepts of Culture	47	(6)
Strengths of Integrated Concepts of Culture	49	(1)
Weakness of Integrated Concepts of Culture	50	(2)
Integrated Concepts of Culture and Theology	52	(1)
Globalized Concepts of Culture	53	(7)
Strengths of Globalized Concepts of Culture	57	(1)
Weaknesses of Globalized Concepts of Culture	58	(1)
Globalized Concepts of Culture and Theology	58	(2)
Conclusion	60	(2)
4. RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: SYNTHESIS AND SYNCRETISM	62	(22)
Introduction	62	(3)
Looking Back at Syncretism	65	(3)
Syncretism and Identity	68	(5)
The Formation of Religious Identities	73	(8)
Resistance	73	(1)
Hybridities	74	(4)
Hierarchical Formations	78	(1)
The Semiotics of Culture and Religious Identity	79	(2)
Theological Criteria for Christian Identity	81	(2)
Conclusion	83	(1)
5. THE FUTURE OF CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGY IN EUROPE	84	(14)
Introduction	84	(2)
Secularization	86	(4)
Dechristianization: The Post-Christian Society	90	(3)
A Multicultural Reality	93	(3)
Conclusion	96	(2)
6. LIBERATION THEOLOGY BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND RECONSTRUCTION	98	(18)
Changes in Events, Changes in Theology	98	(2)
Changes and Their Significance for a Theology of Liberation	100	(5)
The End of Socialism	101	(2)
From Apartheid to Democracy	103	(1)
Social and Political Changes in Latin America	104	(1)
Possible Directions for Liberation Theology	105	(5)
A New Social Analysis?	106	(1)
Reimagining Evil	107	(1)
A New Utopian Horizon?	108	(1)
A New Differentiation in the Agents and Tasks of Liberation Theology	108	(2)
Reconstruction	110	(3)
The Theological Task	113	(1)
Global Theological Flows	114	(2)
7. THE NEW CATHOLICITY	116	(19)
A Look Back	116	(3)
Marks of the Church and Their History	119	(3)
The Church and Its Contexts as a Basis for a New Catholicity	122	(5)
The Period of Expansion (1492-1945)	123	(1)
The Period of Solidarity (1945-1989)	124	(2)
The Period of Globalization (1989- )	126	(1)
Toward a New Catholicity	127	(5)
A New Wholeness	128	(2)
Fullness of Faith	130	(2)
Exchange and Communication	132	(1)
Conclusion	132	(3)
INDEX	135