Conversion and church : : the challenge of ecclesial renewal : essays in honour of H. P. J. Witte / / edited by Stephan van Erp, Karim Schelkens.

• TeilnehmendeR: Witte, H.; Erp, Stephan van, 1966-; Schelkens, K.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Catholic Theology 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

Conversion is an important characteristic of religious renewal, and of the dialogue between churches and religious believers. In the Roman Catholic Church, conversion has played a significant role in ecumenical dialogue recently. It has become a challenge for the Church as a whole, instead of a call to individual believers alone. The contributors of this volume explore the different aspects of conversion in the history of theology, in the developments during and after the Second Vatican Council, in the Ignatian tradition, and in several ecclesial groups that have explored the opportunities of the ongoing renewal of the churches. Contributors are: André Birmelé, Inigo Bocken, Erik Borgman, Catherine Clifford, Peter De Mey, Adelbert Denaux, Eugene Duffy, Stephan van Erp, Joep van Gennip, Thomas Green, Wiel Logister, Annemarie Mayer, Jos Moons, Marcel Sarot, Karim Schelkens, Nico Schreurs, Matthias Smalbrugge, and Arnold Smeets.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- “We Must Always Be Converted”: The Church and the Challenge of Renewal / Stephan van Erp and Karim Schelkens -- 1 The ‘Conversion’ of the Disciples: Schillebeeckx’s View of the Resurrection of Christ / Nico Schreurs -- 2 The Presence of the Absent: Augustine and Deification / Matthias Smalbrugge -- 3 “It’s Better, Then, I Arm Myself with Foresight”: Dante on the Relationship between Conversion and Belief in Providence / Wiel Logister -- 4 Post-Mortem Conversion? / Marcel Sarot -- 5 Seeing Christ on the Battlefield: Sign-Making, Sacrament and Conversion / Stephan van Erp -- 6 A Theatre of Desire: The Philosophical Meaning of the Ignatian Exercises / Inigo Bocken -- 7 Temptation as Conversion: The Architecture of the Sant’andrea al Quirinale and the Ductus of Conversion / Arnold Smeets -- 8 “I Have Wounded My Soul with the Instrument of Salvation”: The Threefold Spiritual Development of Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. / Joep van Gennip -- 9 Pope Francis’s Call for the Conversion of the Church in Our Time / Catherine E. Clifford -- 10 A New Spring for the Church: The Ecclesiological Vision of Pope Francis Emerging in Evangelii Gaudium / Eugene Duffy -- 11 “To Offer a Reasoned Account of the Truth of God”: Vatican II as a Lasting Call to Theological Conversion / Erik Borgman -- 12 Ecclesial Conversion: Some Canonical Reflections / Thomas J. Green -- 13 A Pneumatological Conversion? The Holy Spirit’s Activities According to Lumen Gentium / Jos Moons -- 14 De Oecumenismo Catholico et de Opere Conversionum: The Relationship between Ecumenism and the Apostolate of Conversions before and during Vatican II / Peter De Mey -- 15 Conversion: Key Concept or Hot Potato in Contemporary Ecumenism? / Annemarie C. Mayer -- 16 Ecclesial Repentance and Conversion: Receptive Ecumenism and the Mandate and Method of Arcic III / Adelbert Denaux -- 17 The Essential Conversion of the Churches / André Birmelé -- Index of Names / Stephan van Erp and Karim Schelkens.