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Edward Schillebeekcx: Van het Vlaamse klooster na de oorlog naar de wereld van nu
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Christus, het beeld van sociale transformatie: Richting een transformatieve christologie in Afrikaanse context
No full textThe central claim of this dissertation is this: christological images like healer, liberator and king, which are popular in grassroots Christian communities in sub-Saharan Africa, have socially transformative dimension and potential. The potential, however, is not yet constructively explored nor fully actualised in the African Christian landscape and theological circle. It is then argued that distilling the potential consists in retrieving three closely interwoven christological notions: relationship, agency and praxis. To spell out this argument, the work draws on insights from Jon Sobrino's Christology. Sobrino's historical Christology, with its model of Christ's existence as "incarnate divinity," allows him to lay out certain themes for disclosing how belief in Jesus Christ - as a single reality regardless of whatever image he is proclaimed in - could provide resources for Christian engagement towards bringing about a more just social order. Three of the themes which are relevant for the line of inquiry in the study are: (1) Jesus' relationship with the Father and other people, (2) Jesus' service of the Kingdom of God, and (3) Jesus' call to discipleship and hope for a transformed reality on the basis of his resurrection.
These themes offer the systematic-theological structure for working out the christological trajectories for social transformation in Africa. The trajectories, or what could be designated as the historical correlates of the aforementioned themes are: (a) enhanced relationship of Christians with Christ and with other fellow human beings, (b) empowered human agency of Christians as an outflow of this relationship, and (c) embodied practices of solidarity, both within and beyond ecclesial communities, as the form of Christian discipleship. It is from this line of reasoning, the dissertation concludes, that we can understand how belief in Jesus Christ presents resources for Christian commitment to social change, or simply put, how Christ is the image of social transformation.status: Publishe
De weg bereiden voor een toekomstige contextuele christologie: Lessen uit een vergelijkende analyse van de rol van geschiedenis en context in de constructie van christologische beelden in het werk van Joseph Ratzinger en Edward Schillebeeckx.
No full textThis project aims to explore the role of history/context in the construction of Christological concepts and images in order to propose a methodology for a future contextual Christology. Our working hypothesis is that a great deal of insights in this regard can be gained from studying the way in which two proponents of Christological research, Joseph Ratzinger and Edward Schillebeeckx, have dealt with these questions. Moreover, on closer inspection, we presume that it is their outspokenly divergent ways of dealing with the question of historicity and contextuality whichsharply differentiate their Christologies. We will make this point through a comparative and critical study of their Christologies, including their various conceptions and images of Christ as well as their methodological approaches. A special emphasis will be given to their methodological preferences - especially as regards their reception of historical critical and theological hermeneutical research methods - to evaluate how far they have seriously considered the history/context in the construction of their Christological images. Based on the insights to be gained from this comparative research, we will then conceive of the main methodological lines in view of the construction of a relevant Christological approach in order to do justice to the incarnational character of Christian faith.status: Publishe
The Broken Christian Identity of Europe. Migration as a New Theme for Theology
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In Gemeinschaft mit Fremden. Europäische Identität im Zeitalter der Migration
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