The oil has not run dry : the story of my theological pathway / Gregory Baum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baum, Gregory, 1923-2017, author.

Series:

Footprints (Cheltenham, England) ; 23.

Footprints (Cheltenham, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baum, Gregory, 1923-2017.

Baum, Gregory.

Theologians--Canada--Biography.

Theologians.

Catholics--Canada--Biography.

Catholics.

Church renewal--Catholic Church.

Church renewal.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 259 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Born to a Jewish mother and Protestant father in 1923 Berlin, Gregory Baum has devoted his career to a humanistic approach to Catholicism. In The Oil Has Not Run Dry, Baum shares recollections about his lifelong commitment to theology, his atypical views, and his evolving understanding of the Catholic Church's message. Baum's reflects on his groundbreaking work with the Second Vatican Council (1962 65) and how it helped to open the Church to a new understanding of outsiders--one that advocated cooperation with world religions in support of peace and justice and respected secular philosophies committed to truth and social solidarity. Later embracing Latin American liberation theology, he became a leading thinker of the Catholic Left in Canada, adopting radical positions that initially earned support from Canadian bishops in the 1970s. Diverging from official Catholic doctrines regarding women and sexual ethics, Baum eventually left the priesthood, but continued to teach theology and remained active in the Church. The Oil Has Not Run Dry also discusses the contrast between Catholicism in Quebec and English-speaking North America, and the ways in which Baum sees Quebec's culture as more marked by social solidarity. This significant difference has inspired his decision to present in his own writings the original development of Catholic thought in Quebec to an English-speaking readership. Gregory Baum is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University and the author of Fernand Dumont: A Sociologist Turns to Theology and Truth and Relevance: Catholic Theology in French Quebec since the Quiet Revolution. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 My Theological Pathway 3

1 My Childhood in Berlin 6

2 Coming to Canada 12

3 The Impact of The Confessions of Saint Augustine 17

4 The Discovery of Ecumenical Dialogue 27

5 The Anti-Jewish Rhetoric of Christian Preaching 32

6 The Second Vatican Council 40

7 Salvation in Secular Life 49

8 My Book Man Becoming 53

9 God Is Light 59

10 Dialogue with Sociology 65

11 The Impact of Latin American Liberation Theology 77

12 North America in the 1970s 86

13 Rethinking Sexual Ethics 101

14 The Issue of Homosexual Love 114

15 Moving to Montreal 117

16 Quebec Nationalism and Human Rights 123

17 Learning from Karl Polanyi 129

18 Learning from the Frankfurt School 134

19 In Dark Times 141

20 Theology after the Second Intifada 149

21 Dialogue with Islam 154

22 Pluralism Yes, Relativism No 160

23 Listening to Fernand Dumont 168

24 The Arrival of Pope Francis 174

25 Towards a Pluralistic Catholicism 181

Part 2 Questions and Answers 187

26 Looking Back over Your Life 189

27 Your Hopeful Reading of the Catholic Church 191

28 Your Sinful Existence 193

29 The Humanism of Your Upbringing 195

30 Troubled Theism 198

31 Deeply Rooted in the Catholic Tradition 200

32 Your Homosexual Orientation 208

33 A Poem for Your Ninetieth Birthday 212

34 Your Identity as a Man of Many Affinities 214

35 You Continue to See Yourself as a German 221

36 As a Quebecer Have You Become a Sovereignist? 224

37 Stephen Harper's Remaking of Canada 226

38 In Dark Times We Pray for God's Deliverance 228

39 The Meaning of Prayer in Your Life 230

40 Thinking of Death and Resurrection 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773548268

0773548262

OCLC:

956556298