The Twentieth Century: A Theological Overview

by Baum, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9781570752827
• ISBN10: 1570752826
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

Internationally renowned scholars explore the historical milestones and the movements in the twentieth century and assess their impact on theology in the new millennium.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
PART 1 THE IMPACT OF HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THEOLOGY	3	(132)
1. "The Great War" and the Theologians	3	(11)
DOUGLAS JOHN HALL
2. The Condemnation of Modernism and the Survival of Catholic Theology	14	(13)
VICTOR CONSEMIUS
3. After the Bolshevik Revolution Theologians in the Russian Diaspora	27	(8)
BERNARD DUPUIS
4. Returning from Exile Catholic Theology in the 1930s	35	(14)
JOSEPH A. KOMONCHAK
5. The Great Depression The Response of North American Theologians	49	(12)
DONALD SCHWEITZER
6. Theologians in Nazi Germany	61	(15)
A. JAMES REIMER
7. The Holocaust Theological and Ethical Reflections	76	(15)
ROSEMARY REDFORD RUETHER
8. The Golden Years of Welfare Capitalism The Twilight of the Giants	91	(13)
GARY DORRIEN
9. Emergence of a World Church and the Irruption of the Poor	104	(14)
VIRGILIO ELIZONDO
10. Genesis of a New World Globalization from Above vs. Globalization from Below	118	(17)
LEE CORMIE
PART II THEOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF EVENTS AND MOVEMENTS	135	(116)
11. The Myth of the Twentieth Century The Rise and Fall of "Secularization"	135	(9)
HARVEY COX
12. The Conciliar Ecumenical Movement Transcending Imperial Globalism and Parochial Tribalism	144	(14)
ULRICH DUCHROW
13. The Impact of Vatican II	158	(15)
ROBERT J. SCHREITER
14. The Impact of Marxist Ideas on Christian Theology	173	(13)
GREGORY BAUM
15. The Women's Movement and Theology in the Twentieth Century	186	(18)
SUSAN A. ROSS
16. Voices from the Margins in the United States	204	(15)
DWIGHT N. HOPKINS
LINDA E. THOMAS
17. The Ecological Crisis	219	(9)
STEPHEN B. SCHARPER
18. The Postmodern Debate	228	(10)
MICHAEL J. SCANLON, O.S.A.
Concluding Reflections Looking Back over the Century	238	(13)
GREGORY BAUM
Contributors	251	(4)
Index	255