Christian de Cherge : A Theology of Hope (Cistercian Studies Series)

Salenson, Christian/ Conic, Nada (TRN)

Liturgical Press（2012/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780879072476
• DDC分類 230

Full Description

Christian de Chergé, prior of the Cistercian community at Tibhirine, Algeria, was assassinated with six of his fellow monks in 1996. De Chergé saw his monastic vocation as a call to be a person of prayer among persons who pray, that is, among the Muslim friends and neighbors with whom he and his brothers shared daily life. De Chergé's writings bear witness to an original thinker who insists on the value of interreligious dialogue for a more intelligent grasp of one's own faith.

Christian Salenson shows us the personal, ecclesial, and theological foundations of de Chergé's vocation and the originality of his life and thought. He shows how the experience of a small monastery lost in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria contributes importantly to today's theological debates.

Contents

Contents
Foreword   vii
Introduction   xi
    1. The Context   1
    2. The Conditions of Christian de Chergé's Theology   13
    3. The Foundational Experiences   23
    4. The Place of Islam in God's Plan   33
    5. The Dialogue with Islam   47
    6. Reading the Qur'an   65
    7. A Greater Christ   77
    8. Communion of Saints and Community   95
    9. The Quasi-Sacrament of Difference   111
   10. Eschatology   121
   Transition   137
   11. The Church of the Visitation   141
   12. Witness, or The Question of Martyrdom   153
   13. My Brother's Keeper   169
   14. Praying among Others Who Pray   177
   Conclusion   193
   Appendix: The Testament of Christian de Chergé   197
   Bibliography   203