Leaving Christendom for Good : Church-World Dialogue in a Secular Age

McEvoy, James Gerard

Lexington Books（2016/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 230 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780739194324
• DDC分類 266

Full Description

Leaving Christendom for Good argues that the solution to some of the most troubling tensions in the life of the Catholic Church since Vatican II can be found in the council's document Gaudium et spes. This text's view of the church's mission and social relationships as dialogical has the capacity to liberate. Part One studies the contemporary place of religion—with particular reference to Charles Taylor's groundbreaking work, A Secular Age—and examines Gaudium et spes's dialogical view of the church-world relationship. Part Two explores what true dialogue entails and how it is best understood theologically, engaging critically with Joseph Ratzinger's view of the church-world relationship. The book's final chapter considers two practical implications of its argument: how evangelization can be best understood today, and how the church can best approach issues in the public sphere.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Resolving Present Difficulties
Part I: Church and World Today
Chapter 1: Religion in a Secular Age: From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 2: Religion in a Secular Age: The Explosion into the Present
Chapter 3: The Turn to Dialogue at Vatican II
Part II: Dialogue and its Challenges
Chapter 4: Dialogue, Language, and the Other
Chapter 5: God's Dialogue with Humanity: Word and Spirit in History and Narrative
Chapter 6: A Different Voice: Joseph Ratzinger and the Corruptions of Modernity
Chapter 7: The Church's Dialogue with the World
Bibliography
Index
About the Author