Contextual Fundamental Theology / Hans Waldenfels SJ, Susan Johnson

• VerfasserIn: Waldenfels SJ, Hans
• ÜbersetzerIn: Johnson, Susan
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The handbook of fundamental theology is the result of twenty years of teaching and research and has already appeared in seven different languages; a Chinese edition is on the way. Hans Waldenfels held the chair at the university of Bonn from 1977-1997, where the former Pope Benedict XVI. - Joseph Ratzinger - began his scholarly career. Waldenfels came to Bonn after he had lived and worked in Japan for ten years where he experienced a completely different language and culture. In Japan as well as in other parts of Asia, inculturation became a life experience for him. Following the three classical topics of fundamental theology - God, Jesus Christ, the Church - Waldenfels asks how they fit into the different contexts of ethnic, cultural, religious and ideological contexts of life. Finally he reflects on the process of Christian theology. The handbook shows that modern Christian theology needs a profound knowledge and analysis of the diversity of human and social life. At the same time an equally deep involvement in the mystery of the divine as it appears in the life and death of Jesus Christ. It calls for a strong connection between historical awareness and an insatiable desire of the infinite Beyond.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Hans Waldenfels -- Diagram of the Structure of Contextual Fundamental Theology / Hans Waldenfels -- Preface to the English Edition / Hans Waldenfels -- Introduction: “Contextual Fundamental Theology” / Hans Waldenfels -- The Claim of Christianity / Hans Waldenfels -- Claim and contradiction / Hans Waldenfels -- Claim in context / Hans Waldenfels -- Theology in context / Hans Waldenfels -- Fundamental theology / Hans Waldenfels -- God – Word / Hans Waldenfels -- The contemporary context of the question of God / Hans Waldenfels -- Approaches to God / Hans Waldenfels -- God’s Revelation / Hans Waldenfels -- Jesus Christ the Mediator / Hans Waldenfels -- The contemporary context of the Jesus question / Hans Waldenfels -- Approaches to Jesus Christ / Hans Waldenfels -- Following Christ / Hans Waldenfels -- Faith and faith community / Hans Waldenfels -- The contemporary context of faith and of the faith community / Hans Waldenfels -- Approaches to Faith in the Faith Community / Hans Waldenfels -- Church and World / Hans Waldenfels -- Knowledge of faith / Hans Waldenfels -- God’s Word in the word of man / Hans Waldenfels -- Tradition / Hans Waldenfels -- “At your word” / Hans Waldenfels -- Index of Abbreviations / Hans Waldenfels -- Bibliography / Hans Waldenfels -- Index of Scriptural References / Hans Waldenfels -- Index of Names / Hans Waldenfels -- Index of Subjects / Hans Waldenfels.