Edward Schillebeeckx and Contemporary Theology

Lieven Boeve is Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium. As of August 1, 2014, he has been appointed the Director-General of the general office of Catholic Education in Flanders (Fundamental Theology). His research concerns theological epistemology, philosophical theology, truth in faith and theology, tradition development and hermeneutics. From 2005 till 2009 he served as president of the European Society for Catholic Theology. He is the author of Interrupting Tradition. An Essay on Christian Faith in a Postmodern Context (2003), God Interrupts History. Theology in a Time of Upheaval (2007), Lyotard and Theology (2014) and Theology at the Crossroads of University, Church and Society (2016). He has co-edited various volumes, of which the most recent are: Questioning the Human: Toward a Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century (2014) and The Normativity of History. Theological Truth and Tradition in the Tension between Church History and Systematic Theology (2016). On September 17, 2015, the European Society for Catholic Theology awarded him the biennial prize for the best theological book of the past two years, for his monograph Lyotard and Theology.Dr Frederiek Depoortere is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven (Belgium) and a member of the research group 'Theology in a Postmodern Context'. Stephan van Erp is Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium

• List of Contents In Memoriam Edward Schillebeeckx, OP (1914-2009) Prof. dr. Lieven Boeve, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Prof. dr. Ben Vedder, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Letter from Edward Schillebeeckx to the Participants in the Symposium ‘Theology for the 21st Century: The Enduring Relevance of Edward Schillebeeckx for Contemporary Theology' (Leuven - December 3-6, 2008) Preface Frederiek Depoortere List of Contributors INTRODUCTION The Enduring Significance and Relevance of Edward Schillebeeckx: Introducing the State of the Question in Medias Res, Lieven Boeve PART I ‘God Is New Each Moment': The Question of God in Modernity God, the Luxury of Our Lives: Schillebeeckx and the Argument, Anthony J. Godzieba Taking Atheism Seriously: A Challenge for Theology in the 21st Century, Frederiek Depoortere PART II ‘Everything Is Politics But Politics is Not Everything': The Social Role of Theology When Everything becomes Political: Reading Schillebeeckx on Faith and Politics in the Contemporary United States, Vincent J. Miller New Orientations of the Political: On the Contemporary Challenge of Political Theology,Jürgen Manemann PART III ‘God Is Bigger Than All Religions Put Together': The Dialogue Between the Religions God Before Us, God Among Us: Interreligious Dialogue from an Intercultural Feminist Perspective, Gemma Tulud Cruz Which Christological Tools for the Interreligious Dialogue?, Jean-Louis Souletie PART IV ‘Deus humanissimus': Suffering and Experiences of Negative Contrast Suffering, Resistance, and Hope: Women's Experience of Negative Contrast and Christology, Kathleen McManus, OPThe Threatened Humanum as Imago Dei: Anthropology and Christian Ethics, Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP ‘Dark Light': Wrestling with the Angel at the Edge of History, Elizabeth Kennedy Tillar PART V ‘It Began With an Experience': Church and Tradition in an Age of Globalization and Liquidization Pushed to a Precarious Flexibility: Where to Go if Tradition Has No Answer and Apocalypse Is No Alternative, Hans-Joachim Sander History and Tradition: Catholicism and the Challenge of Globalized Modernity, Oliver Davies The Church with a Human Face, Marc Dumas PART VI Philosophy and Theology Implicit Faith: Philosophical Theology after Schillebeeckx, Stephan van Erp Conversation, Identity and Truth, Benoît Bourgine PART VII Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Past and Future of Schillebeeckx's Theological Project Retrieving God's Contemporary Presence: The Future of Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of Culture, Erik BorgmanSchillebeeckx and Theology in the Twenty-First Century, Robert J. Schreiter Theology for the 21st Century: A Commentary on the Symposium, Kathleen Dolphin, PBVM Bibliography Index

This volume not only introduces Schillebeeckx's theology, one of the leading theologians of the twentieth century, but it also explores its potential for the twentieth first century. The range of challenges and the high quality of the essays by internationally known scholars makes this volume indispensible for anyone interested in the challenges facing theology today. Its value goes far beyond the interpretation of Schillebeeckx to a serious engagement with the problems and issues he faced and with those that we need to face today.