Responsibility, God and Society

Summary

A generation of students at the Faculty of Theology of the K.U.Leuven have been introduced by Roger Burggraeve to the thoughts of Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995). Levinas has been (and still is) for him a true "master in thinking". For Levinas responsibility is heteronymous because it does not start from the "I" but from the epiphany of the other as the face, appealing to me not "to kill" but to promote him/her. In and through the appeal of the face, the difference between the other and me - expressed in the irreducible alterity of the other - is, ethically speaking, the appeal to the highest "non-indifference": proximity without absorption. As Levinas' thinking carries on obvious Jewish-Talmudic imprint, Burggraeve was interested as to how the concept of responsibility can be connected to a biblically inspired ethic. In which way can the Levinasian view on responsibility enhance a Christian anthropology, and in particular that one articulated by Louvain personalism, and in its turn inspired by a Christian anthropology, so that it benefits from uniquely Christian accents? In this Festschrift for Roger Burggraeve, authors explore the theme of "Responsibility, God and Society" in order to answer two questions. What does Levinas' ethic of responsibility have to offer Christian theology? And vice-versa, what can Christian theology offer to contemporary ethical thought on personal, relational and societal responsibility.

Preface	p. VII
Bibliography Roger Burggraeve	p. XI
Introduction	p. XXXV
Valedictory Lecture: "Fraternity, Equality, Freedom": On the Soul and the Extent of Our Responsibility	p. 1
Levinas and Christian Theology
The Secret of Abraham and Its Repetition: A Narrative Reflection on the Relation between Faith and Ethics	p. 25
Heidegger, Kant, Levinas and the End of the World	p. 49
Re-Reading the Bible with Levinas	p. 69
Emmanuel Levinas and Christianity: Uncompromising Proximity	p. 83
The (Im)possibilities of Levinas for Christian Theology: The Search for a Language of Alterity	p. 103
Is Theology Fundamental? The Scope and Limits of Doing Theology with Levinas	p. 123
Creative Kenosis: Levinas and Christian Theology	p. 143
Founding Ethics - Living Morally - Facing God: The Human Person in Christian Phenomenological Anthropology	p. 163
Responsibility, Society and Christian Ethics
On Which Conditions Can Christian Eschatology Be a Factor of Social Responsibility?	p. 185
Which Responsibilities for Future Generations?	p. 213
Responsibility in the Family: The Complementarity of Ethics of Children and Marriage	p. 233
Care: Making Values Traditionally Associated with Femininity Visible. A Different Perspective on Responsibility, God and Society	p. 257
Roger Burggraeve's Ethics of Growth in Context	p. 287
The Difference of Alterity: A Religious Pedagogy for an Interreligious and Interideological World	p. 305
"Our Brother's Keeper": Thomistic Friendship and Roger Burggraeve's Ethic of Responsibility	p. 331
Responsibility in Solidarity: Equal Care as the Best of Care	p. 357
The Structure and Content of Ethical Discourse	p. 371
Justice Subordinated to Love? The Changing Agenda of Catholic Social Teaching since Populorum progressio	p. 389
Index of Names	p. 407
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