God interrupts history : theology in a time of upheaval / Lieven Boeve.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boeve, Lieven.

Standardized Title:

God onderbreekt de geschiedenis. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Theology--Methodology.

Theology.

Christianity and culture--Europe.

Christianity and culture.

History--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2007.

Summary:

The role of Christian faith in contemporary culture has changed dramatically. Both detraditionalization and pluralization have caused a rupture between faith and its social context. Modern correlationist theologies, which presume a fundamental continuity between faith and its context, no longer succeed in explaining the relation between Christian faith and contemporary society. But theologies of discontinuity eventually fail as well, because they risk forgetting the intrinsic link between faith and history, society and culture.

Christianity today demands a theology beyond theories of continuity and discontinuity. This book develops a theology of interruption. Boeve emphasizes the specificity of the Christian narrative about God, humanity, and their history together, and argues that this specificity urges Christians to be engaged in their context, because God interrupts history. After an analysis of the contextual changes, the author sketches the fundamental aspects of a theology of interruption. This forms the basis for his further analysis of religious experience, rituals and sacraments, negative theology, religious plurality and incarnation, and apocalypticism.

Contents:

The European religious situation : a "post-secular" and "post-Christian" context

A new method : recontextualization leads to interruption

An adjusted dialogue with the context : distinguishing between an inner and outer perspective

Theology and the interruption of experience

The sacramental interruption of the rituals of life

Narratives of creation and floods : a contest between science and Christian faith?

"I believe that there is 'something more'!" religious : revival and negative theology

Jesus both God and human : Incarnation as a stumbling block or cornerstone for interreligious dialogue?

God interrupts time : apocalypticism as an indispensable theological conceptual strategy

The shortest definition of religion : interruption.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826428127

0826428126

9780826428134

0826428134

OCLC:

85484916