Naming and thinking God in Europe today : : theology in global dialogue / / edited by Norbert Hintersteiner.

• Superior document: Currents of encounter ; vol. 32
• TeilnehmendeR: Hintersteiner, Norbert, 1963-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Currents of Encounter 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 pages).
• Notes: "This volume is the first publication of a three-year-long European Socrates Intensive program entitled "The concept of God in Europe's global religious dialogue," compare pages [11]. The program comprised three conference seminars that met in 2003, 2004, and 2005. The papers in this volume were presented at the meeting held in May, 2003, in Vienna.

Is there a new need and place for God-talk in Europe? The present volume both confirms this and opens up new questions for discussion. It shows how different traditions of naming and thinking God in Europe draw on various theoretical and philosophical foundations that are in competition with one another in many ways. Due to socio-cultural, historical and political divides between Eastern and Western Europe, these theological traditions often suffer from isolation and mutual misunderstanding. Can the inherent tensions and conflicts be understood more adequately? While exploring a variety of approaches in Europe on the topic, several authors also ask: How can God be named and thought in Europe, which finds itself in the midst of complex crosscultural and interreligious processes - particularly as immigration increases and peoples of non-Christian faith traditions name and think God in ways that differ from and sometimes conflict with Europe's dominant religion(s) and secular culture? What function and impact will traditional God-talk have in a globalizing Europe as religions such as Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism move into the foreground? This volume not only reveals the broad spectrum of its topic but also documents the vivid seeking undertaken by a new generation of European theologians and scholars of religion who openly engage the question of how to live and believe in Europe today, facing complex global challenges.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Norbert Hintersteiner -- “God’s in His Heaven ... Where He Belongs”: Religions, Europe, and Monopolar Transcendence in Global Society / Peter Beyer -- Speaking of God in the New World Order, Incorporated / Anne Kuli -- Europe’s God: Liberator or Oppressor?: The Postcolonial Mediation of Transcendence / John D’Arcy May -- Thinking about God from the Perspectives of Encounter and Community: A Challenge for European Theology in a Globalized World / Jacques Haers -- From a European Subject to a Global Verb: God in Terms of Pastoral Relativity / Hans-Joachim Sander -- Thirty-Years’ Worth of Studies and Publications on the Subject of God / François Bousquet -- Thinking About God in Central Eastern Europe: Social Experiences and Theological Challenges / András Máté-Tóth -- Thinking About God Philosophically in Europe Today: A Czech Perspective / Karel Skalický -- Thinking God in National and Religious Conflicts: The Case of Romania / László Holló -- God in Twentieth-Century Portuguese Literature / Peter Stilwell -- Thinking God Between Fundamentalism and Liberalism / Siegfried Wiedenhofer -- Ethics, the Hermeneutics of Memory, and the Concept of God / Maureen Junker-Kenny -- Mystical and Aesthetic Experiences in Modernity / Amador Vega Esquerra -- Kataphasis and Apophasis in the Greek Orthodox Patristic Tradition / Georgios D. Martzelos -- Phenomenology and Theology: A Contemporary Exit Strategy from Metaphysics / Vincent Holzer -- Ethical Monotheism and Human Freedom: Theological Convergences with the Pluralism of the Modem Age / Georg Essen -- Christian Monotheism: Exclusivity or Openness to Otherness? / Ioannis Kourembeles -- Christian Faith in the Postmodern Context: The Case of Gianni Vattimo / Georges De Schrijver -- Models of Divine Action in the World / Armin Kreiner -- Thinking God in a Paschal Perspective / Tomasz Węcławski -- Communio: A Problematic Keyword of Contemporary God-Talk / Leonhard Hell -- The Idea of “God” in Global Theology / Keith Ward -- Twentieth-Century Jewish Thought as a Challenge to Christian Theology / Josef Wohlmuth -- Ibn ‘Arabī’s God, Eckhart’s God: Philosophers’ God or Religion’s God? / Ghasem Kakaie -- Can the Hindu Experience of God Enrich the European Concept of God? / Bettina Bäumer -- Thinking God in South India: The Theistic Vedānta of the Viśiṣṭādvaita School / Marcus Schmücker -- Thinking and Naming the Ultimate in Buddhist Theology / Aasulv Lande -- Intercultural and Interreligious (Un)Translatibility and the Comparative Theology Project / Norbert Hintersteiner -- Limits and Prospects of Comparative Theology / Perry Schmidt-Leukel -- Comparative Theology as an Alternative to the Theology of Religions / Klaus von Stosch -- The Role of Concepts of God in Crosscultural Comparative Theology / Robert Cummings Neville -- List of Authors.