The Ground Beneath the Cross

by Burke, Kevin F.

• ISBN13: 9780878407613
• ISBN10: 0878407618
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

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Author Biography

Kevin F. Burke, S.J., is assistant professor of systematic and historical theology at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	ix
Preface	xiii
Notes to Preface	xvii
Introduction: Theology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century	1	(11)
Notes to Introduction	12	(3)
The Martyr As Theologian	15	(28)
Ellacuria's Story	15	(5)
Mentors and Movements	20	(6)
The Influence of Xavier Zubiri	26	(7)
Ellacuria's Writings	33	(2)
Notes to Chapter 1	35	(8)
Philosophy of Historical Reality	43	(30)
The Character of Human Intellection	44	(6)
The Object of Philosophy	50	(3)
The Structure of Reality	53	(7)
The Grounds of History	60	(8)
Notes to Chapter 2	68	(5)
The Human in Historical Reality	73	(26)
The Human As Reality Animal	74	(11)
The Human Task of History	85	(7)
Notes to Chapter 3	92	(7)
Foundations of Theological Method	99	(22)
Dynamics of the Encounter with Reality	100	(8)
Constitutive Conditions of Method	108	(6)
Notes to Chapter 4	114	(7)
Operations of Theological Method	121	(30)
Historical Reality and the Method of Historicization	123	(7)
Historicizing the Christian Vision	130	(14)
Notes to Chapter 5	144	(7)
Salvation in History	151	(24)
Beyond Objectivism and Subjectivism	152	(5)
Theophany of a Liberating God	157	(9)
Historical Reality and Historical Transcendence	166	(4)
Notes to Chapter 6	170	(5)
The Cross and the Church	175	(28)
Historical Necessity and the Death of Jesus	175	(5)
The Crucified People	180	(6)
Historical Soteriology as Ecclesiology	186	(13)
Notes to Chapter 7	199	(4)
Conclusion: The Ground Beneath Theology	203	(12)
Notes to Conclusion	215	(4)
Selected Bibliography	219	(16)
Index	235