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Küng, Hans,, 1928- Theology for the third millennium : an ecumenical view / Hans Küng ; translated by Peter Heinegg. - 1st ed.. - New York : Doubleday, 1988.
xvi, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Translation of: Theologie im Aufbruch. Includes indexes. Content notes : Foreword -- Direction: on the way to "postmodernity" -- Postmodern: a heuristic concept -- Crisis and the departure toward the new -- The function of religion in postmodernity -- [Part I.] Classical conflicts -- [Section I.] Ecumenical theology caught in the cross fire -- Consequences of the dispute between Rome, Luther, and Erasmus -- Chances for a third force? -- The restoration of the counter-reformation -- Erasmus the unloved -- A reformer before the reformers -- The emergency: Wittenberg versus Rome -- Between Rome and Wittenberg: neutrality instead of commitment -- Martin Luther's share of the guilt -- On the responsibility of theology at the moment of truth -- Ecumenical theology between aggression and flight -- [Pt. I / Section II.] The Bible and Church tradition -- Unfinished business between Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy -- Scripture "and" tradition: the Catholic answer to Luther -- Scripture "or" tradition: a weak compromise by Vatican -- Scripture taken literally: the Protestant version of infallibility -- Does inspired mean unerring? Vatican II and the Bible -- The ecumenical solution: scripture as testimony to revelation -- Is the orthodox tradition in keeping with scripture?: the problem of the Eastern Church -- Yes to the Bible, tradition, and authority -- No to biblicism, traditionalism, and authoritarianism -- What Christians believe in -- [Pt. I / Section III.] Schism because of the Bible? -- On the problem of the unity of scripture and the Church -- Is the unity of the Church grounded in the New Testament canon? / Ernst Käsemann -- The dispute over unity / Hermann Diem -- Narrowing the area of discussion: agreements -- The reason for the multiplicity of confessions: selection -- Evangelical Catholicity as an imperative -- Postscript 1986 -- [Pt. I / Section IV.]Dogma versus the Bible? -- Historico-critical exegesis as a challenge to dogmatic theology -- on the misery of today's dogmatic theology -- The sacraments: "instituted by christ"? -- Church offices: "in the apostolic succession"? -- Jesus Christ: in the shadow of dogma? -- [Part II.] Future perspectives -- [section I.] How does one do Christian theology? -- Steps toward understanding -- Vatican II and its consequences -- A comparison of two Christologies / Edward Schillebeeckx -- What is the norm for Christian theology? -- The consensus on historico-critical exegesis -- What to do in the jungle of hypotheses? -- What is the horizon of Catholic theology? -- Critical correlation without critical confrontation? -- [Section II.] Paradigm change in theology and science -- Fundamental historical-theological clarification -- In search of connections -- The theoretical framework -- What does paradigm change mean? / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Macro, meso, and micro paradigms -- How does novelty come into being?: parallels from natural science and theology -- A total break? the question of continuity -- Differences between theology and science -- A critical ecumenical theology -- Horizon? the world (first constant) -- What standard? the Christianmessage (second constant) -- [Pt. II / Section III.] A new basic model of theology? -- Disputable and indisputable points -- "Paradigm": a controversial concept -- Clarifications -- The present-day crisis: what we don't have to argue about any more -- Four dimensions of the postmodern paradigm -- [Pt. II / Section IV.] Theology on the way to a new paradigm -- Reflections on my own career -- The paradigm of Catholic traditionalism -- Speculative escape routes? / Karl Rahner -- A theology of crisis / Karl Barth -- Bridging the gap between exegesis and dogmatic theology -- The Christian message as the basic norm of theology -- Today's world of experience as the horizon of theology -- From the modern-enlightened to the postmodern paradigm -- Theology in the postmodern paradigm -- Ethos and style of critical ecumenical theology -- [Part III.] A new departure toward a theology of the world religions -- [Section I.] on paradigm change in the world religions -- Preliminary reflections on an analysis of the religious situation of the age -- The distinction between religion and paradigm -- The question of epochal thresholds -- The survival of "outdated" paradigms in art and religion -- Does paradigm change mean progress? -- Constants and variables in Buddhism -- [Section II.] Is there one true religion? -- An essay in establishing ecumenical criteria -- One or several: a pragmatic solution? -- Four basic positions -- The knotty question of a criterion for truth -- The human element: general ethical criterion -- The authentic or canonical: general religious criterion -- On the specifically Christian criterion -- On the way to ever greater truth -- [Part IV.] Karl Barth and the postmodern paradigm -- Dates and places of original publication -- Theological confrontation -- Catholic attempts at understanding -- Ecumenical understanding -- Karl Barth: initiator of a "postmodern" paradigm in theology -- Karl Barth: not the perfector of the postmodern paradigm in theology -- Creation-revelation: the permanent challenge of "natural theology" -- Criticism of "theological exegesis": the permanent challenge of Rudolf Bultmann -- A critical-sympathetic rereading of Barth against the background of postmodernity. 0385244983 : $19.95 9780385244985 * Theology, Doctrinal. 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