Confronting the Mystery of God
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Confronting the Mystery of God

Political, Liberation, and Public Theologies

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Confronting the Mystery of God

Political, Liberation, and Public Theologies

About this book

A highly insightful study of three major movements in Roman Catholic theology over the past thirty years. This fascinating work of theological scholarship offers an exceptionally broad scope and powerfully unifying theme. Gaspar Martinez first offers penetrating interpretations of three major contemporary theologians working on three continents, in quite dissimilar historical, cultural, social, and economic situations. Then he goes on to illustrate how Johannes Metz, Gustavo GutiTrrez, and David Tracy each had a tensive ongoing relationship to the mid-twentieth century theologians and movements that formed them-Karl Rahner, nouvelle theologie, and Bernard Lonergan, respectively. Martinez brilliantly contextualizes each of these thinkers. In broad strokes, he sketches postwar Germany, postcolonial Peru, and the American century and shows how each man was formed by his era. He also examines the lines of influence and relationship between these theologians and some of their nontheological contemporaries: Metz and Adorno, Bloch, and Benjamin; GutiTrrez and Paulo Freire, JosT Carlos Mariategui, and the novelist JosT Marfa Arguedas; and Tracy and thinkers from Eliade and Ricoeur to Gadamer and Derrida.Martinez convincingly illustrates how each of these theologians in recent years has focused more directly on the mystery of God, entailing greater emphasis on spirituality and mysticism, with the consequence that the more properly theological their theologies have become the more they have become negative theologies.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9780826412393
eBook ISBN
9781441104083
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Theology
88
Johann
Baptist 
Metz: 
Political 
Theology
Easter. 
Jesus' 
scream
on 
the
cross 
cannot
be
forgotten
after
the
resurrection.
It
still 
belongs
to 
the
resurrected 
Christ.
The 
one 
who
does
not
hear
that
scream
any
longer
"does
not
hear 
theology
but
mythology, 
does
not
hear
the
gospel
but 
a
conqueror's
myth."
227
Eschatology,
the
second 
coming
of
Christ, 
belongs
in 
the
center
of
Chris-
tology. 
There 
cannot
be 
a
triumphant, 
realized 
soteriology,
but
only
a
soteriology
that
lets 
itself
be
questioned
and
interpreted
by 
the
actual, 
his-
torical,
massive 
presence
of
evil
and 
of
innocent
suffering,
past
and
present,
in
the
world.
That
past,
present,
and
future
memory 
must 
regain
its
central
place
in 
the
Christian 
community. 
Christianity
is,
originally,
a
narrative-and-
memory-based 
community
that,
as 
a
result
of 
the
process
of
developing
a
theology, 
became
an
argumentation-based 
community. 
Only
by
retrieving
that
dangerous 
memory
and
living
by 
it
will 
theology
not
forget
in 
its 
re-
sponses
all 
its
questions
and
cries.
Thus,
the
radical
and
true 
experience
of
missing
God
(Gottesvermissenserfahrung)
will
be
again
at 
the
center
of 
the
theological 
talk 
about
God.
228

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1. Karl Rahner and the Turning Point in Catholic Theology
  6. 2. Johann Baptist Metz: Political Theology
  7. 3. Gustavo Gutiérrez: Liberation Theology
  8. 4. David Tracy: Public Theology
  9. 5. The Exitus from Transcendentality to History and the Reditus from History to the Mystery of God
  10. Notes
  11. Select Bibliography
  12. Index